News Archive for Sep 2012

Of that timely saffron offer
Editorial The Island - Courtesy The Island 
The government has adopted the proverbial carrot and stick approach in trying to deal with the Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA) on strike. Minister S. B. Dissanayake has offered to pay the striking dons their salaries for the last three months if they report for work on Monday or Tuesday. The FUTA, which completed a long protest march on Friday, has rejected the minister's offer out of hand contemptuously. While the government and the FUTA are playing some game of chicken with the university crisis worsening, the Maha Nayake Theras... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/09/12)

25,000 Muslim rioters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh
RT
Tens of thousands of rioters left a trail of destruction in southeastern Bangladesh as they torched Buddhist temples and homes near the town of Ramu. The violence was sparked by a photo posted on Facebook that allegedly insulted Islam. ­A 25,000-strong mob set fire to at least five temples and dozens of homes throughout the town and surrounding villages after seeing the picture, which they claimed was posted by Uttam Barua, a local Buddhist man, AFP reported. The group chanted “God is Great” while setting fire to the centuries-old temples. "I have seen 11 wooden temples, two of them... -Full Story- (rt.com - 30/09/12)

විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ආචාර්ය වර්ජනයේ සැගවුණු විස්තර
- තතු දන්නා විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරයෙක්- Lankacnews.com
නිර්මාල් රන්ජිත් දේවසිරි යනු හිටපු කතෝලික පුජකයෙකි. කොලඹ සරසවියේ ඉතිහාස දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ආචාර්යවරයෙකි. වත්මන් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ආචාර්ය සමිති සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති වරයාය. ඔහු කියන්නේ දුටුගැමුණු යනු අමානුෂික වහල් නායකයෙක් බවයි. ඔහුට අනුව යනු LTTE ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් යනු විමුක්ති සටන්කාමීන්ය. දේවසිරි කොටින්ට ස්වයන් පාලන අයිතිය ලබා දිය යුතු බවට ප්‍රසිද්දියේ ප්‍රකාශ කල ඒ වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි අයෙකි. ඔහු දීප්ති කුමාර ගුණරත්න, ධම්ම දිසානායක සහ චරිත හේරත් එකතුව කලකට පෙර X කණ්ඩායම නමින් විජාතික ආයතනයක් ඇරඹීය. එහි අරමුණ වුයේ බුදුදහමට සහ සිංහල සංස්කෘතියට නිගා කර පශ්තාත් නුතනවාදය නම් අදහස වැපිරීමයි. ධම්ම දිසානායක අද ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යංශයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂක කෙනෙකි. විශ්ව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/09/12)

Decline and fall of Jaffna into Nandikadal Lagoon
H. L. D. Mahindapala
 On January 30, 1908 Ponnambalam Arunachalam, M. A., Cantab, Ceylon Civil Service, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, took the floor in the Legislative Council Chamber, the highest political institution of the day, to deliver a lecture on the Sketches of Ceylon History. Governor Sir. Henry A. Blake, G. C. M. G., presided over this session in the Legislature as usual. The lecture was more than an overview of Ceylon history. In essence it was an exposition of the Sinhala-Buddhist civilization and culture which were articulated for the first time in English at the highest political level occupied by the English-speaking elite in colonial times.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

LTTE moves to institute war crimes allegations and “Sri Lanka in Bloom” exhibition
Asada M Erpini
Media (The Island) on 29 carried a headline news item that “a fresh LTTE initiative is underway … to press for an international war crimes inquiry”.  It is ironic that the guilty party is the one that is levelling the accusations against the armed forces and the government of Sri Lanka. The whole world saw during the final stages of the Liberation War how the LTTE cadres shot at the escaping civilians among the 300,000 Tamil civilians, who had been corralled as the LTTE’s human shield, when they ran towards the armed forces for safety after... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

Weak Governance and fissiparous pressures in India will make things difficult for Sri Lanka in the decade ahead.
R Chandrasoma
Throughout India’s long and turbulent history, regional powers and kingships jousted for overlordship in a region ridden by tribal, linguistic and religious differences. Unlike that other great Asiatic power China, our large neighbor to the North failed to establish that homogeneity of language and culture that is the necessary pre-requiste for stable nationhood. After the enforced  unification of India by the Colonial Overlord – the British – a liberation movement sought to erase differences under the banner of a ‘Hindustan’ that emphasized the ‘Hindutva’ commonality of the peoples of India. (Buddhism was never a significant cultural force in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

Student Thugs inside Sri Lankan Universities-strike leader Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri is well-known for justifying LTTE separatism during the anti-Tiger war
Sumal -UHO Says
The Strike is still ongoing in universities .Apparently the protesting elements (FUTA, IUSF, JVP and some sections of the opposition) say that strike is to force the Govt: to allocate the 6% GDP for the education. But as we observed so far, their actual objectives are the 1) increment of their salary 2) hidden political objective of dragging society toward an anarchy which favorable for the JVP and other lumpen revolutionists. Government has never denied the possibility of allocating more funds to the education. Such effort needs some time and pre-analysis for proper implementation. However,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

Student Thugs inside Sri Lankan Universities'..........
Ajantha Premarathna
The only solution to the university education crisis in Sri Lanka is establishing “Private Universities” with foreign collaboration and allow private sector to invest in university education as government is not capable to invest such a huge budget while attending to other similar priorities such as health, transports, other infrastructure developments etc. The salaries of the private universities would definitely be more attractive than government universities. It will naturally be forced the government to match the salaries of the private universities. What FUTA fighting is illogical and absurd. They all know very well that it will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහා නායක හිමි
පසුගිය සියවසේ ලියැවුණු ගැඹුරු දහම් පොත්වලින් බොහොමයක්ම රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහා නායක හිමියන්ගේ බව ගිහිපැවිදි දෙපක්ෂයම හොඳින් දනී. උන්වහන්සේ ලියූ බෞද්ධ පොත් විනය ග‍්‍රන්ථ, අභිධර්ම ග‍්‍රන්ථ, භාවනා ග‍්‍රන්ථ, ධර්ම ග‍්‍රන්ථ ආදී වශයෙන් වර්ග කොට දැක්වීමට පුළුවන. ඒ ඒ විෂයනට අදාළව පරතෙරට ගිය අපූරු ධර්මධරත්වයක් උන්වහන්සේට තිබුණි. එසේම ගුණ බර වූ විනය ධරත්වයක් ස්වභාවයෙන්ම රේරුකානේ නායක හාමුදුරුවන් ගෙඩනගා ගෙන තිබිණි. ඒ ධර්මධරත්වය හා විනයධරත්වය මගින් උන්වහන්සේ අපේක්ෂිත අරමුණක් උදෙසා ගමන් කළ බවටද සාක්ෂි සාධක තිබේ. බළන්ගොඩ ආනන්ද මෛත්‍රෙය මහා නාහිමියන් රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහ නාහිමියන් කෙරේ දැක්වූයේ අපමණ ගෞරව භක්තියකි. “රේරුකානේ නායක හාමුදුරුවන්ගේ බණ පොත්ටික හොඳින් කියෙවුවොත් එ තැනැත්තා හොඳ ධර්ම ධරයෙක්. ධර්මඥයෙක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

What is the difference between biodiversity and ecosystem and do they affect the human lives?
Dr Hector Perera      London
“Individual species and ecosystems have evolved over millions of years into a complex interdependence. This can be viewed as being akin to a vast jigsaw puzzle of inter-locking pieces. If you remove enough of the key pieces on which the framework is based then the whole picture may be in danger of collapsing. We have no idea how many key ‘pieces’ we can afford to lose before this might happen, nor even in many cases, which are the key pieces. The ecological arguments for conserving biodiversity are therefore based on the premise that we need... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

Is violent approach – a solution for the anti-Islamic film?
By A. Abdul Aziz,
 At this time of distrust and chaos around the world especially in the Middle East the Muslim world needs  to remember the time when the Prophet Muhammad  (peace and blessings of God be upon Him) was stoned  in the city of Taif and bled to the extent that his shoes  were soaked with blood.  At that time Angel Gabriel came to him saying that at Prophet's one word he had the ability and permission from God to join the two mountains and crush the people who lived between them.  What did our injured Prophet Muhammad... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/09/12)

Nightmare in Finland: 4 children, including newborn, 'falsely' taken from Russian mother
RT
A Russian woman claimed Finnish authorities took her four children, including an infant, after falsely accusing her family of child abuse. The traumatized family will be apart for at least six months, while awaiting a court hearing. ­Anastasia Zavgorodnyaya, a 29-year-old Russian-born resident of Vantaa, Finland, and her husband said that they were shocked when their children – aged between one week and six years old – were taken into state custody and put in a foster home. In late August, Zavgorodnyaya's oldest daughter Veronika was injured at school, she said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The girl's... -Full Story- (rt.com - 29/09/12)

Rat reality show: Russian scientists to broadcast GMO experiment
RT
After a French study suggested that rats fed on Monsanto GMO corn suffered tumors, Russian researches plan their own, this time public, experiment. The unique reality show with rats is expected to prove or deny GMO’s health-threatening influence. ­The Russian scientists, who oppose genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food, expect that their year-long experiment will show whether the controversial cultivation process has effects as dangerous as French revelations claimed on September 19. Scientists from France's University of Caen made public the results of their classified study, publishing the images of rats with tumors after they were fed a diet... -Full Story- (rt.com - 29/09/12)

Saving Sri Lanka’s Education – From Whom?
Shenali Waduge
 Sri Lanka’s education has been like a volcano – steadily waiting to erupt and it is getting closer to its objective. Undeniably there is no one cause for the current crisis. For Sri Lanka’s education to get on track those responsible for the current crisis must first accept accountability and then resolve to set things straight. Unlike any other ministry – the country’s future depends on the education of its younger generation and we need to now stop passing pillows and seriously set right the malpractices and corrupt ways that exist. Education certainly needs to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/09/12)

Revisiting PWC - VII
Dr.Tilak Fernando
The great philanthropist Sir Charles Henry De Soysa’s dream of building two schools for children in Moratuwa and naming those as Prince and Princess of Wales to commemorate the visit of Edward VII (Prince of Wales at the time) to Colombo in 1875 came true when permission was granted to his request by the British authorities. Consequently, on September 14, 1876, Sir William Gregory, the Governor of Sri Lanka, graced the occasion by officially opening the new seats of learning on a picturesque 15 acre land facing the Galle Road on one side and bordering the Lunawa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/09/12)

Rebel support ‘pushes Syria deeper into the abyss of bloody sectarianism’ – Lavrov
RT
The militarization of the conflict in Syria is continuing with calls for an open intervention, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said in a speech to the UN General Assembly. ­“Of particular concern is the deepening of the internal conflict in Syria,” Lavrov said. “We have consistently called for consolidated efforts of the international community to compel the government and its opponents to immediately cease the violence and come to the negotiating table, and to elaborate a compromise on the content and pace of the reforms that would satisfy all Syrians and ensure the safety and rights of all ethnic and... -Full Story- (rt.com - 28/09/12)

High Security Zones in the North: Tamil National Alliance and its request to India
Asada M Erpini
Two cardinal truths that obviously cannot ever get inside the heads of the Tamil National Alliance politicians and their spokesmen are: Mr. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister of India and his remit is to handle the affairs of India; His Excellency Mahinda Rajapkase is the President and Head of the sovereign nation of Sri Lanka, entirely distinct from India, and he has been entrusted by the voting public of Sri Lankan to manage the affairs of the island nation. Yet the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), as reported in The Island on 27... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

Patriotism, Nationalism and Sri Lanka today
By Mario Perera, Kadawata
 There exists a big gap, a wide gaping, even abysmal hole, between concepts and realities, between ideas and life as it is lived. Such values as patriotism and nationalism are deep seated attitudes to be expected in ordinary citizens of a country. They are considered as being normal, so much so that their absence in some elicits damning condemnations from poets and writers of all times. The English poet predicted that such persons would ‘doubly dying go down to the vile dust from whence they sprang, unhonoured and unsung’. These virtues are brought to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

Sacrificing compassion for barbaric rituals-A reply to Somapala Gunadheera
Sagarika Rajakarunanayaka and Sathva Mithra  Courtesy :  The Island
It is usual for those  speaking against the stopping of animal sacrifice  and animal slaughter, as in the case of Somapala  Gunadheera (SG) in his article  " Making bombs out of butchers’ stocks"  (the  "Sunday Island" of 23.9.2012),   to begin with the pious declaration  that one is  a confirmed vegetarian . He even affirms that he abhors animal slaughter. Believing by this solemn declaration that he has established himself as a person of compassion and ahimsa, he proceeds to fiercely oppose those who are fighting to stop the barbaric practice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

The Rewards of Giving
Dhamma Group
"These are the five rewards of generosity: One is dear and appealing to people at large, one is admired by good people, one's good name is spread about, one does not stray from the rightful duties of the householder, and with the break-up of the body at death, one reappears in a good destination, in the heavenly worlds." — AN 5.35 [The Buddha:] "Then there is the case where a certain person refrains from taking life, refrains from taking what is not given, refrains from sensual misconduct, refrains from false speech, refrains from divisive speech, refrains... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

RAW: An Instrument Of Indian Hegemony- India’s Intelligence Operations Unveiled
by Isha Khan LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's foreign policies and strategies. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the years become and effective instrument of India's national power. In consonance with Kautilya's precepts, RAW's espionage doctrine is based on the principle of waging a continuous battles of intrigues and secret wars. RAW, ever since its creation, has always been a vital actor in Indian policy-making apparatus. But it is the massive international dimensions of RAW operations that merit... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

We cannot allow anyone to do this
By Afshain Afzal
US and its allies are trying their level best to divert the attention of nations from the humiliating defeat at the hands of Mujahideen and subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a recent attempt, Nicholas Donabet Krisof, in his recent article entitled “Exploiting the Prophet,” published in The New York Times on 22 September 2012, made another blasphemous attempt to get his name written in the list of heroes. He writes, “PISS CHRIST,” a famous photograph partly financed by taxpayers, depicted a crucifix immersed in what the artist said was his own urine. But conservative Christians did... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

The Government has not approved animal sacrifices – President’s Secretary
Courtesy: ITN News
The Government has not reached any agreement with regard to granting permission for the conduct of animal sacrifices at the Munneswaram Kovil in Chilaw. All religions in the country do not endorse animal cruelty. The Presidential Secretariat emphasized that clear instructions have been issued to the Police to strictly enforce the law against those who breach the Animal Cruelty Act. The President made a request to halt the animal sacrifice at the Munneswaram as a mark of respect to exposition of the Kapilavastu Sacred Relics. Lalith Weeratunge says that as the President’s Secretary he expressed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

Sri Lanka & the European Union signs the Horizontal Air Services Agreement
Media Release- The Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to Belgium,  Luxembourg  and the European Union
Sri Lanka and the European Union today (27 September 2012) signed the Agreement between the European Union and the Government of Sri Lanka on Certain Aspects of Air Services, which is commonly known as the 'Horizontal' Air Services Agreement, at the European Council in Brussels, Belgium.  Ambassador P.M. Amza, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the European Union signed the Agreement on behalf of Sri Lanka, while Ambassador George Zodiates, Deputy Permanente Representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the EU  and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

SRI LANKA IN PICTURES - A CAPTIVATING PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPLAY
The High Commission of Sri Lanka London
A two-day photographic exhibition capturing in graphic detail Sri Lanka before and after the 30-year conflict attracted a wide cross-section of foreign and local dignitaries. Held at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London the exhibition was viewed by parliamentarians from the House of Commons, House of Lords and the European Parliament, leading Buddhist monks in the UK, London-based diplomats, Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials and from Commonwealth institutions, public figures and the Sri Lankan community. Among the attendees was Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat who was in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/09/12)

Syrian rebels defect to government forces
RT
A group of Syrian rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) defected and joined pro-government forces on Wednesday. The troops’ commander announced that “the road is open,” and called on to other rebels to abandon their uprising. ­Eleven rebel troops – three officers, two warrant officers and six civilians – defected from the FSA and now support President Bashar al-Assad, AFP reported. "We have decided to return to the army and cooperate with the Ministry of National Reconciliation," Lieutenant-Colonel Khaled Abdel Rahman al-Zamel said during a conference of non-combatant Syrian opposition groups. “We are all Syrians, we reject a... -Full Story- (rt.com - 27/09/12)

Clinton admits al-Qaeda behind Benghazi attack
RT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now suggests the attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans may have been hatched by an al-Qaeda affiliate, yet another drastic change of heart from an Obama appointee. In New York City on Wednesday, Secretary Clinton told attendees at a special United Nations meeting that the September 11, 2012 assault first thought by the White House to be a spontaneous, violent response to an Anti-Islam film made in America could have been orchestrated by extremists in North Africa, specifically those subscribed to an off-shoot of al-Qaeda.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 27/09/12)

THE ROVING EYE-Why Qatar wants to invade Syria
By Pepe Escobar
Make no mistake; the Emir of Qatar is on a roll. What an entrance at the UN General Assembly in New York; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani called for an Arab coalition of the willing-style invasion of Syria, no less. [1] In the words of the Emir, "It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties, and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria." He stressed Arab countries had a "military duty" to invade. What he means by "Arab countries" is... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 27/09/12)

THE ROVING EYE-Hawk, dove, butterfly, bee
By Pepe Escobar
What's that unheard-of political specimen spreading its wings over the geopolitical spectrum? It is aggressive as a hawk, compromising as a dove; it dances like a butterfly and stings like a bee. What kind of plumed composite is that? A hawdovebutterbee (HDBB)? Get used to it. The HDBB happens to be no other than the President of the United States (POTUS), Barack Obama. Yet the question is inevitable. Will it fly?... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 26/09/12)

Afghanistan prognosis looks gloomier
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With all foreign troops due to leave Afghanistan just two years from now, the news out of the Central Asian nation is becoming increasingly gloomy. Adding to the pessimism is a just-released report by one of the most astute observers of the US war, Gilles Dorronsoro, an Afghanistan expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), who, among other things, predicts that the regime in Kabul "will most probably collapse in a few years" given current trends. "Political fragmentation, whether in the form of militias or the establishment of sanctuaries in the north,... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 26/09/12)

Russia halts imports of Monsanto corn over cancer fears
RT
Russian authorities temporary suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer. ­The Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Health & Consumers to explain the EU’s position on GM corn. The report prepared by France's University of Caen and published last week, claimed that rats fed over a two-year period with Monsanto's genetically modified NK603 corn, developed more tumors and other pathologies than a test group fed... -Full Story- (rt.com - 26/09/12)

Pepper-sprayed UC Davis students awarded $1 mln
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College students and alumni that were injured when a police officer at the University of California, Davis, discharged military-grade pepper-spray in their face during a peaceful protest last year will split a settlement of roughly $1,000,000. Members of the UC Regents board agreed earlier this month on a settlement to be split among the 21 demonstrators targeted by a campus cop since removed from the force, but the final amount was not disclosed until now. The Sacramento Bee reports on Wednesday that the board had decided behind closed doors on a figure of roughly $1 million.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 26/09/12)

Another Success : All IDPs resettled in North Sri Lanka
Shenali Waduge
 Sri Lanka’s success story comes after suffering 3 decades of terrorism, loss of close to 80,000 lives, rejection of numerous local and international bids of ceasefires and peace talks, refusal to stop killings of innocent civilians, continuance of child conscription to finally decide on a military solution to ending the conflict. It took just 3 years to complete the military elimination of the LTTE including its ground leadership in May 2009 becoming the first nation to eliminate terrorism from its soil freeing the people from suicide attacks and indiscriminate LTTE bombings. It took just 3 year to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/09/12)

Is Patriotism, Politics or Nationalism poisoning the world?
Shenali Waduge
 Let us put things in perspective. A Government cannot solve our problems, it cannot set our goals and it cannot define our vision. Similarly, a Government cannot eliminate poverty, increase economy, reduce inflation, cure illiteracy, provide resources or even save the world. A Government may not have solutions but it certainly can create or worsen the problem. Is there any reason to be surprised why people hate the word Government? This is in reference to not only one Government but to all Governments round the world. Much of the trust that should define politics is no more,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/09/12)

රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහ නාහිමියන්, ඉත්තෑපාන නාහිමියන් සමඟ කළ සාකච්ඡාවක්
වත්මන් සමාජයේ බොහෝ දෙනා වෙහෙසෙන්නේ පොහෝ දිනයකට සිල් සමාදන් වී, දාන මානාදී පින්කම් සිදුකොට නිර්වානය පසක් කොට ගැනීමටය.
රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහ නාහිමියන් උසස් මාර්ග ඵලයකට පත්වූයේය යන්න උන්වහන්සේ පිළිබඳව දන්නා වූ සියලූදෙනා හිස් මුදුනින් පිළිගන්නා දෙයකි. පැවිදි ජීවිතයේ වැඩි කාලයක් භාවනාවෙන් හා ගැඹුරු දහම් පොත් ලිවීමට උන්වහන්සේ වෙහෙසුණහ. ”මං පොත් ලිව්වේ පොදු ජනතාවට මේ උතුම් ධර්මය බෙදා දීමටත් වඩා මගේ සම්මෝහය දුරු කර ගැනීමටයි. ධර්මය ඉගෙන ගැනීමෙනුත්, පොත් ලිවීම සඳහා කරුණු රැුස් කිරීමෙනුත් ඒ සම්මෝහය දුරු වෙනවා කියලා කියන්න පුළුවන්.” එක් අවස්ථාවකදී රේරුකානේ මහ නාහිමියෝ ප‍්‍රකාශ කළහ. රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල මහ නාහිමියන්, ඉත්තෑපාන නාහිමියන් සමඟ කළ සාකච්ඡාවක්
වත්මන් සමාජයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/09/12)

යාපනය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට සම්බන්ධ කෙරේ
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය
උතුර - දකුණ එකම විදුලිබල ජාලයකින් බැඳේ. කිලිනොච්චි ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොල ජනපති සුරතින් බලගැන්වේ.  වසර 25 කට පසු යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතිය සමඟ සම්බන්ධ කිරීම අද පෙරවරු 10.45 ට යෙදී තිබූ සුබ මොහොතින් ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිඳුන්ගේ සුරතින් සිදුවිය. වවුනියාවේ සිට කිලිනොච්චි දක්වා ව්‍යාප්ත වුණු කිලෝ වෝල්ට් 132 අධි සම්පේ‍්‍රෂණ රැුහැන් මාර්ගය කිලිනොච්චියේ ඉදිකළ ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොල මඟින් බලගැන්වීමද එතුමාගේ ප‍්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සිදුකෙරිණි. කුළුණු 238 කින් සමන්විත මෙම සම්පේ‍්‍රෂණ පද්ධතිය බලගැන්වීම, වවුනියා-යාපනය ්9 මාර්ගයේ කිලිනොච්චි නගරයට ආසන්නයේ ඉදිකර ඇති කිලිනොච්චි ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොලේදී සිදුවිය.  වසර 25 කට පසු අද සිට උතුර දකුණ එකම විදුලිබල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/09/12)

Must Watch–Iran Bashing, Terrorism and Who Chose The Chosen People, Anyway?
theuglytruth
Zionism, Jewish extremism and a few other nasty items making our world uninhabitable today The Ugly Truth THE 10 DEADLY truthing SINS Muslim Woman Beaten to Death in Possible (!!!) Hate Crime » Must Watch–Iran Bashing, Terrorism and Who Chose The Chosen People, Anyway? 140 Votes Of the many excellent videos produced by the very gifted Anthony Lawson, this one has to be one of the very best. Please pass this around as much as possible... -Full Story- (theuglytruth.wordpress.com - 25/09/12)

Malani Fonseka resigns and withdraws resignation on the advice of President Mahinda Rajapaka.
Secretary General of Parliament Dammika Dassanayake confirmed that UPFA National List MP Veteran Actress Malini Fonskea had resigned from her post as MP. Mr. Dassayanake said that she had officially informed him about her resignation UPFA national list MP Malani Fonseka  later withdrew it on the advice of President Mahinda Rajapaka. Ms. Fonseka told Daily Mirror that she had earlier decided to resign from her parliamentary seat to make way for another person to be appointed to parliament... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

Unruly Behaviour at Hambantota T-20 WC Cricket Game Could Have Far Reaching Consequences!
Top Spin By Suni
September 24th 2012  What transpired at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium ~Soorirawewa Hambantota  during and after the T20 World Cup game on Sunday between Sri Lanka and South Africa  is not only shameful but dampens all related proceedings although the circumstances involving what was tantamount to  a mini riot at the stadium does not leave room for any tolerance on the part of the authorities who have been caught in a quandry over the sheer timing of it all and at a time when the circumstances were already trying due to the weather conditions!  Perhaps it was a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

Insulting people's intelligence
The Island Editorial
Major Chandana Pradeep Susena's claim that he was too shocked to remember who really beat him the other day at Hilton Residence makes one feel sorry for him and the army. He is a weakling who gets easily shocked and disoriented in a scuffle with a few ruffians. If what he has told the Court is anything to go by, the army must be scraping the bottom of the barrel and it is a pity that the national military has had to depend on information provided by such personnel in making crucial decisions on matters concerning... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

SRI LANKA TO EXPORT EIGHT MILLION PIECES OF ready made GARMENTS TO INDIA AT ZERO DUTY
by Walter Jayawardhana
Under relaxed conditions announced recently Sri Lanka will be able to export eight million pieces at zero duty to India very soon.  The new opportunity arose as India decided to relax fabric sourcing requirements for ready made garment exports to India at the request of Sri Lanka.  Once the notification by the Government of India is issued, Sri Lanka will be able to export the readymade garments to India at zero duty under India- Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA). Under the existing arrangement under ISFTA, India has granted two sets of apparel quotas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

What if Israel bombed Iran? The view from Washington.
By Karim Sadjadpour and Blake Hounshell,
September 23, 2012 "Washington Post" -- September 21, 2012 - For months, Israel has threatened to strike Iran’s nuclear sites. The United States has urged restraint. If such an operation were launched, how might Washington react? President Obama is enjoying a quiet dinner with Michelle, Sasha and Malia at the White House residence on a Thursday evening in October when he gets the call. Two dozen Israeli fighter jets have just entered Jordanian airspace, apparently en route to Iran, chief of staff Jack Lew tells him. They will enter Iranian airspace, via... -Full Story- (informationclearinghouse.info - 24/09/12)

Egypt's Morsi resets ties with US
By M K Bhadrakumar
The confusion in the American mind about Egypt ended this past weekend, The confusion actually arose when US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor scrambled to clarify that "ally" is a "legal term of art", whereas Egypt is a "long-standing and close partner" of the United States, and, thereupon, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland butted in to contradict both Obama and Vietor by insisting Egypt was indeed a "major non-NATO ally".... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 24/09/12)

Syria: A photoshopped "revolution"
by World Mathaba :One of the most famous examples of photoshopping during the ongoing foreign-orchastrated Syrian crisis is the photo which appeared in Austria’s largest newspaper Kronen Zeitung on July 28 (first photo below) when readers were treated to the image on the left of bombed out Aleppo. The original photo on the right came from the European Pressphoto Agency and shows a Syrian family that was or wasn’t fleeing for the violence – but the Zionist media moguls apparently needed a more apocalyptic background to communicate their propaganda message against the Syrian government. In numerous other cases photos... -Full Story- (worldmathaba.net - 24/09/12)

Military strike on Iran would trigger WWIII: A senior Iranian military commander
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that an Israeli strike on the Islamic Republic could trigger the World War III.
We see the United States and the Zionist regime [of Israel] alongside one another and can by no means imagine that the Zionist regime would initiate a war [against Iran] without the US support….In case of the eruption of such a [war] condition, the situation would spin out of control and management; this war is likely to degenerate into the World War III. It means that some countries might enter the war in favor of or against Iran,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

Obama promises to block Netanyahu's 'noise
RT
US President Barack Obama said during a televised interview that aired this weekend that he will block out “any noise” from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging America to intervene in an Iranian nuclear program. Speaking to 60 Minutes, President Obama acknowledged that the United States does indeed maintain friendly relations with Israel, but suggested that he would not necessarily intervene in that country’s issues if it wasn’t the best course of action for the American people. The interview was conducted by Steve Kroft and carried by CBS Sunday evening. Responding to a question about how much pressure the... -Full Story- (rt.com - 24/09/12)

Ecosystems and the adverse effects on climate change
Dr Hector Perera       London 
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment is an ecosystem. This is a living community of plants and animals sharing an environment with non-living elements such as climate and soil. This might sound difficult to understand but think this way. An ecosystem can be very small, such as a puddle or an area under a large rock, or it can be vast, such as an ocean. A small bog, a single sand dune or a tiny patch of the forest may be viewed as an ecosystem where the inhabitants live. These inhabitants may... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population
By Carey L. Biron
 A few extracts from a UN report exposing another case of hypocrisy of US policy on HR. The full report is available at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32525.htm WASHINGTON, Sep 20 2012 (IPS) - A top United Nations official has presented the first ever international investigation into the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States, urging the adoption of new policies and mechanisms to “address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical wrongs, failed policies of the past and continuing systemic barriers”. Based on research in the United States this past spring, James Anaya, the U.N.’s special... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

“Let it not be that in the name of freedom of speech the peace of the entire world be destroyed.” – Ahmadiyya Supreme Head.
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka.
 Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at says that anger of Muslims is fully justified, but violent reaction must be condemned  Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad speaks to assembled media about film  The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa, has called on Muslims across the world to peacefully unite in their opposition to the film ‘The Innocence of Muslims’ which has stirred up great resentment and anger amongst Muslims worldwide. He has also called for limits to free speech so that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට සම්බන්ධ කිරීම හෙට
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය
වසර 25 කට පසු යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතිය සමඟ සම්බන්ධ කිරීම හෙට (25* පෙරවරු 9.30 ට ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිඳුන්ගේ සුරතින් සිදුකෙරේ. වවුනියාවේ සිට කිලිනොච්චි දක්වා ව්‍යාප්ත වුණු කිලෝ වෝල්ට් 132 අධි සම්පේ‍්‍රෂණ රැුහැන් මාර්ගය කිලිනොච්චියේ ඉදිකළ ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොල මඟින් බලගැන්වීමද හෙට ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ ප‍්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සිදුකිරීමට නියමිතය. මෙම සම්පේ‍්‍රෂණ පද්ධතිය කුළුණු 238 කින් සමන්විතය. ප‍්‍රධාන උත්සවය වවුනියා-යාපනය ්9 මාර්ගයේ කිලිනොච්චි නගරයට ආසන්නයේ ඉදිකර ඇති කිලිනොච්චි ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොලේදී සිදුකිරීමට කටයුතු සංවිධාන කර ඇත.  වසර 25 කට පසු උතුර දකුණ එකම විදුලිබල පද්ධතියකින් සම්බන්ධ කෙරෙනුයේ කිලිනොච්චි ග‍්‍රිඞ් උපපොලේ සිට යාපනය දක්වා දිවෙන කිලෝ වෝල්ට් 33... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

Sri Lanka marks its presence at International French Travel Market - IFTM TOP RESA 2012 -
Media Release Embassy of Sri Lanka Paris
Sri Lanka participated to the annual IFTM Top Resa (International French Travel Market) that was held in Paris from September 18th to September 21st, 2012. Flagship fair for the tourism sector, IFTM Top Resa brings every year thousands of travel agents from across the world who come to present their products and services to the industry’s production and distribution professionals. 18 Sri Lankan tour operators were present at this year’s edition which focused on Business Travel: Aitken Spence Hotels, Aitken Spence Travels, Amaya Resorts & Spa, Andrews the Travel Company, Ceylon Tours,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/12)

India and Sri Lanka must seek War Crimes against Adele Balasingham for fostering LTTE suicide terrorism
Shenali Waduge
Human Rights Watch expressed its unequivocal view that suicide bombing is a crime against humanity. HRW also claims that the political elites, commanders, and those that organize, facilitate, and encourage these suicide attacks are likewise guilty of conduct that offends against prevailing norms of international criminal law. [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 28(b), U.N.Doc. no. A/CONF. 183/9 (17 July, 1998), 37 I.L.M. 999]. In the words of Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, “[t]he people who carry out suicide bombings are not martyrs, they’re war criminals, and so are the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

Save Mes Aynak Buddhist Cultural Site
Dilrook Kannangara
When the Bahamian Buddhist statues were destroyed in 2001, it passed without much resistance. Those who silently suffered it called it quick karma when coalition troops attacked Afghanistan later that year ending the Taliban rule. However, the world lost these valuable artefacts. Buddhism is not about statues and archaeological sites but these symbolic artefacts must be preserved. Millions of people pay homage of Buddhist relics that symbolise the outward aspect of their belief. They are part of a broader cultural-religious phenomenon that symbolise philosophical teachings. They are also of immense archaeological value.       Mes Aynak is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

BIZZARE MYTHS OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SECTS.
Mahinda Weerasinghe -The author of “The Origin of Species According to The Buddha”
I wrote this piece as a comment to I. Ahmad essay, the heading of which is outlined below. On second thought the majority of my enemies would have missed it I felt and unable to offer their valuable opinion. So I did a little bit of touching up to get the bite and acidity flowing, and also made the subject juicer, and posted, for your reading pleasure.“Ayesha’s Age at the Time of Her Marriage – A Response to “Innocence of Muslims” Posted on September... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

TO BE OR NOT TO BE-THAT IS THE QUESTION!
By Darmitha
It is very easy to be in the news when one’s father is a controversial public figure and spares no pains to show the public what obedient children he has fathered! Politics certainly took a summersault twist during the “post ’78 JRJ Dharmishta Government which duped the citizens of this country into believing that Sri Lanka will be ever prosperous with his amended Constitution and open economic policies which gave unlimited access of all imported goods whether or not they were needed by this country. It also gave legality for parliamentarians to have their own personal security... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

මාලක සහ මේජර්ගේ නාඩගම හෙවත් කලිසමට උඩින් ජංගි ඇන්දවීම!-හෘද සාක්‍ෂිය නිහඬ කරවන පරමාධිපත්‍යයේ කරුමය
ජානක ලියනආරච්චි-දිවයින
අලුත් කතාව දැන් දරුවන් දෙදෙනාම මුදා හැර ඇත. ඒ දැඩි කොන්දේසිමත මතය. පෙරේදා (21) ඔවුන්ව මුදාහරින්නේ කොටුව මහේස්‌ත්‍රාත් කණිෂ්ක විජේරත්න විසිනි. මේ අවස්‌ථාවේ ඒ පහර කෑමට ලක්‌වු මේජර් වරයා අධිකරණය වෙත පුද්ගලිකව ඉදිරිපත් විය. මේ ඒ මොහොතේ මහෙස්‌ත්‍රාත්වරයා හා ඔහු අතර ඇතිවු දෙබසය. මහෙස්‌ත්‍රාත්වරයා - මෙම පහරදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන් කුමන පොලිස්‌ ස්‌ථානවලට ද ප්‍රකාශ ලබා දුන්නේ. මේජර්වරයා - පළමුව රෝහල් පොලිසියටත් අනතුරුව කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය පොලිසියටත් ප්‍රකාශ ලබාදුන්නා. මහෙස්‌ත්‍රාත්වරයා - පොලිසිය අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ "බී" වාර්තාවත්, ඔබේ දිවුරුම් ප්‍රකාශයත් වෙනස්‌ වීමට හේතු මොනවාද? මේජර්වරයා - පහරකෑම හේතුවෙන් මා ඒ අවස්‌ථාවේදී විශාල කම්පනයකට පත්ව සිටියා. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

VCK DEMONSTRATORS ASSAULT A MOTORIST VICIOUSLY FOR ASKING WHY DELAYING TRAFFIC
by Walter Jayawardhana
Members of Viduthalai Chiruthakal Katchi (VCK) an ally of Vaiko violently attacked  a motorist, according to photos and videos published, near the Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai . Media reports said the bullish thugs were outraged when a motorist asked them why their demonstration was delaying the traffic so much. Reports said the police did not come to the aid of victims until the media intervened. Following is the eye witness news the |Hindu published: “Police are on the lookout for a group of men who attacked a motorist during a protest organised... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

SUSPECTED SPY WITH SRILANKAN CONNECTION REMANDED IN TAMILNADU
by Walter Jayawardhana
Thamim Ansari a citizen of India and a resident of Tamil Nadu who was alleged to have spied for |Pakistan with the help of Colombo’s Pakistani High Commission was remanded by a Tiruchi magistrate when he was produced before him by the Q Branch of the Tamil Nadu Criminal Investigation Department. The suspected Inter-Services Intelligence operative, was produced in the court in Tiruchi on Saturday evening after the expiry of the one-day police custody and was remanded to judicial custody. The Q Branch-CID police which interrogated him since  evening of September 21, produced him before the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

Sri Lanlan Pensioners
S.Saravanapavan
The Editor Lankaweb Colombo 20th September 2012 Retired Tamil Pensioners are discriminated by Sri Lankan Embassies, Sri Lankan High Commissions etc by treating them without dignity etc. and not willing to even accept FAXES which are cheaper to send to the Embassies and High Commissions by the pensioners -many of them suffer from various illnesses and some suffer from terminal illnesses.. But S.L High Commissions and Embassies still send their telegrams in GTC (Government Telegraph Codes). There is no secrecy in GTC unless they are sent in special codes which have many restrictions. I have checked with lawyers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

First-Ever Lifetime Feeding Study Finds Genetically Engineered Corn Causes Massive Tumors, Organ Damage, and Early Death
&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;&8205;By Dr. Mercola
The first-ever lifetime feeding study1 evaluating the health risks of genetically engineered foods was published online on September 19, and the results are troubling, to say the least. This new study joins a list of over 30 other animal studies showing toxic or allergenic problems with genetically engineered foods. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, found that rats fed a type of genetically engineered corn that is prevalent in the US food supply for two years developed massive... -Full Story- (articles.mercola.com - 23/09/12)

UNP Idealogy That "Ties Between India And Sri Lanka Are Shattered and In Jeopardy" Put Into Perspective .
Insight By Sunil Kumar
September 24th 2012 What UNP Kurunegala District MP, Dayasiri Jayasekara has said in moving an adjournment motion in a recent parliamentary debate that the Government should take immediate steps to strengthen the now shattered diplomatic relations by providing a political solution to the ethnic problem sounds more like the cacophony coming out of Tamil Nadu linked to the wishful thinking of some of the politicians from that part of India who would love to see a severing of ties Between India and Sri Lanka illogical and irrational as it sounds as India just to appease the bickering of a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/12)

Dr. Manmohan Singh wants Sri Lanka to devolve power to the Tamils. Ha!
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
22 September 2012 OPEN LETTER TO  INDIA's PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH sent by FAX Honourable Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India South Block, Raisina Hall, New Delhi, India, 110011                                                                                                                                                                                  Dear Prime Minister: You almost made me scream at you saying, “Come…on…Manmohan…stop being a Goddam joker” when I read the news item in Sri Lanka’s The Island of September 22, 2012, which said that you had asked the visiting President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka “… raised the issue of devolution of power in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

Frederica Jansz, Editor, Sunday Leader - Sacked
P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne
It had been reported that Frederica Jansz, Editor of The Sunday Leader had been sacked by the new management. The new owner is Asange Seneviratne. The paper is anti-national, anti-cultural, anti-Sinhala, anti-govt, anti-war, pro-LTTE and so on. The new owner took over on the 13th September. At a staff meeting, he had been critical how the paper is run and had observed, "... Very few people read the paper, articles carried are malicious, degrading and mostly targetting the government and the President...Some inside articles are purely rubbish... offensive and seem to incite violence against the govt..." This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

Frederica Jansz: You're Fired
By Lankan Eye
 A smug, self-satisfied smile appeared on my face when I read of Frederica Jansz's dismissal from the Sunday Leader.  I'm only being honest here. And I do not think it would be an exaggeration to say that many other Sri Lankans would have felt the same way. The newspaper is a sad excuse for journalism.  Lionised by media rights groups (including international ones), and paraded as the epitome of journalistic brilliance by sycophants, the paper has long been only suitable for wiping one's posterior after passing a bowel motion, and even then I think very many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

Statement of the Nabaviyyah Islamic Youth Organization Regarding the Film Defaming Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
PRESS RELEASE-Kamil Hussain-General Secretary- Nabaviyyah Islamic Youth Organization Beruwala Sri Lanka
Praise be to Allah, Lord of All the Worlds, and may Allah’s blessings be upon His final messenger to humanity, Holy Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH) and upon the Prophet’s family and Companions. Everyone is aware of the US film defaming Holy Prophet Muhammad’s noble character, which was produced by people who harbour enmity and hatred towards Islam, and which has been circulating throughout the Internet and international news media. Such people inspired by hate have sought time and again through reckless defamation to provoke Muslims around the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

The Disappointment that’s Obama
Hameed Abdul Karim
 When President Barack Obama’s election victory was announced virtually the whole world whooped in joy. Here, we thought, was a chance that the world would be a better place to live in, without the likes of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and company pursuing their dangerous extreme right wing policies to bring the world to its knees and force us all to worship the empire.  Obama came in like a breath of fresh air. Being an offspring of a mixed marriage with a black as father and a white mother, we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

CITIZENS FOR A SECURE SRI LANKA Invites other concerned citizens to Walk together for Children
CITIZENS FOR A SECURE SRI LANKA
(An informal network of concerned individuals and organizations)   Invites other concerned citizens to Walk together for Children   Silently, dressed in white, unified messages to communities to protect all children and to tell perpetrators of child abuse that we are vigilant Sunday, 30 September 2012 2.30 pm, 3 starting points in Colombo Visakha Vidyalaya, Vajira Road, Colombo 4 Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Model Farm Rd entrance, Colombo 8 Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association, opposite Public Library, Colombo 7 (Duration one and a  half hours) Out of Colombo all Districts will Walk from Morning in District... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

වසවත් මරුගේ සංග්‍රාමය
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
වසවත් මරු රට පුරාම සැරි සැරුවා කුමරු    සොයා මතු රජවෙන මහ බලවත් රට ඉල්ලන කුමරු මෙයා සකල විකුම් පා අභිමන් සතුරු බලය බිදින      නියා දැක ගන්නට යලි උපදින් ඉන්දු සයුරෙ මුතුව සොයා විස්කම් මව අනාගතේ සිදුවෙන හැම සිද්ධි             දාම රසවත් කර කියන විටදි මරුගෙ මනසේ රැදින   මෙහේම තණ්හා, රතී, රගා, රගන ප්‍රේම වන්ත සොදුරු       ගේම පවතින කල මොන කුමරුද අපට එරෙහි වන්නෙ එහෙම මතු රජවන කුමරුගෙ යුගවෙත මේලොව     කැරකූවා විස්කම් මව පැවසු  විලස කුමරුත් මෙහි රජ         වූවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Lecture-on Monday 24th September 2012 at 5.00 p.m
Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Lecture
On
New discoveries from Deeghavapi and Nilagiri sites   by   Dr. Nimal Perera, Deputy Director General, Department of Archaeology on Monday 24th September 2012 at 5.00 p.m.     at the   Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium,   No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07       ALL ARE WELCOME... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

New set of Buddhist/meditaiotn books: By Prof. Sunil Wimalawansa
LankaWeb
I hope you would be interested in reading the following new set of books.  These are written in simple English and are in color, especially for children:  (A)  The American Who Revived Buddhism in Asia: Legacy of Col. Henry Steel Olcott (84 pages in colour; USD 8.00).  (B)  The Intertwined History of Buddhism and Lanka (240 pages in color; USD 15.00). (C)  A series of three meditation books, Samatha, Metta, and Vipassana; these come with a presentation pack.  These three books are interlinked, and thus, reading all three is recommended (200 pages in each book, in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/12)

Robert O'Blake: Tell Sri Lanka what to do with her military
Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario. K1J 6G1 . Canada
21 September 2012 Ambassador Robert  O'Blake Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia State Department, Washington, US.  Dear Bob O'Blake: After you spoke to the Sri Lankan Government with your bumptious, super-bully, authoritative voice – “I emphasize the importance of progress in reducing the role and profile of the military in the North, and full respect for human rights”, what’s all this I hear that you Yankees have over 1000 US foreign military bases and yet make a juvenile commotion over Sri Lanka’s internal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

Unfolded truth about the Tamil Tigress –book written by Niromi De soyza ( Sri Lankan born )
Judy Mariampillai
Dear Mr P S Suryanarayana Mr P S Suryanarayana is Editor (Current Affairs) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), anautonomous research institute at the National University of Singapore I read review about the book Tamil Tigress was published in one of the papers. I thought , it is worth to expose some of the serious untruthfulness in the book. The title of the book starts with the title “Tamil Tigress: my story as a child soldier in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war by Niromi de Soyza “ which was initially published by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

Will TNA ever see anything positive happening in Sri Lanka?
Asada M Erpini
A TNA team comprising its leader R. Sampanthan and his partners Mavai Senathirajah, Suresh Premachandran, Selvam Adaikalanathan, P Selvarajah and M. A. Sumanthiran – who obviously are blind to the massive infrastructure developments going in the North and East, and the demining and resettling of the displaced that is almost complete - is reported to have met the members of the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) and expressed its doubts about the government’s commitment to implementing the recommendation of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). And, what were the points in the agenda of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

Our tolerance on undue interference
S. Akurugoda
Robert Blake has come and gone once again. As usual, Blake has expressed his concern about our security forces presence in the north, human rights, issues of accountability, election in north and power devolution etc, the same stories he and his local political friends in TNA, Tamil Diaspora and the so-called civil societies funded by the west are concerned since the elimination of LTTE. According to media reports, Blake has asked the government of Sri Lanka  for reduction of military in northern part of  Sri Lanka, while the military of the United States is deployed in more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

RAJAPAKSA CALLS FOR TOLERANCE AT SANCHI
A Hindu report
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday called for tolerance in a world where enmity and hatred towards other faiths had a “tragic” fallout in violence even as MDMK chief Vaiko protesting his visit was arrested. The visit of Mr. Rajapaksa amid tight security was marked by protests by Mr. Vaiko and 750 workers of his party who were arrested at the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border while setting out on a march to Sanchi, about 45 km from Bhopal. MDMK has been opposing Mr. Rajapaksa’s visit as they hold him responsible for the alleged atrocities on Tamils... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

50 KM AWAY VAIKO WAVES BLCK FLAG FROM A BALCONY WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED
by Walter Jayawardhana
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazagam outfit’s leader Vaiko and 750 odd party workers were arrested by Madhya |Pradesh police as the South Indian rabble rouser’s followers were burning effigies of Mahinda Rajapaksa and waving black flags outside a Dharmasala a guest house where they were detained for two dates for trying to disrupt peace on the Madhya Pradesh border.. The black flag demonstration took place about 50 kilometers from the venue Saranath deliberately to synchronize with the laying of the foundation by the Sri Lankan President  as  none of these picketers could reach as all roads had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

VAIKO STOPPED EN ROUTE TO SANCHI AT MADHYA PRADESH BORDER
by Walter Jayawardhana
Over 1,000 Marumalarcha Drvida Munnetra Kazagam (MDMK) workers led by the outfit’s General Secretary Vaiko  who were  on their way to Sanchi to in a convoy of 41 buses to protest against the visiting Sri Lanka President  Mahinda Rajapaksa were stopped by the Madhya Pradesh police. The stopped Vaiko followers sympathetic to Sri Lanka’s defeated LTTE continued with their agitation late on Wednesday night near Pandhurna on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border. Jabalpur range Inspector General V. Madhu Kumar said late on Wednesday that neither Mr. Vaiko nor any of the MDMK workers was arrested, as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

Vaiko Agitations A Consternation For Indo -Lanka Relations As Well As An Embarrassment For India.
In Retrospect By Sarath Kumara
September 21st 2012 When the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) general secretary Vaiko on Wednesday criticised the Centre as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Madhya Pradesh government for inviting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to a function in Sanchi near Bhopal ranting that " President Rajapaksa is solely responsible for the genocide of innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka", It seems fairly obvious that the man is either deluded, cannot come to terms with the realities  of what transpired in Sri Lanka during the near 30 year terrorist insurgency or simply does... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

POLICE BLOCK ALL ROADS TO SANCHI TO PREVENT VAIKO MEN
 by Walter Jayawardhana
The Madhya Pradesh police took unprecedented security measures in view of President Rajapaksa’s visit  to Sanchi to lay a foundation stone for a new university for Buddhist and Indic studies when it closed all roads to Sanchi to prevent MDMK party followers from reaching there to hold a black flag protest against the visiting Sri Lankan President. Party leader Vaiko and nearly thousand followers who came in 41 buses from Chennai were stopped at the Madhya Pradesh border and many including the leader were holding a sit in protest barricading a public road. Vaiko who has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

"වසර 25 කට පසු යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතිය සමඟ එක්කිරීම, ලබන 25 වනදා ජනපති සුරතින්"
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය
•        එදිනට කිලිනොච්චි ග්‍රිඩ් උපපොලද බලගැන්වේ. •        1987 න් පසු විදුලිබල පද්ධතියේ උතුර-දකුණ යා කෙරෙන පළමු අවස්ථාව  •        මාස 05 ක් ඇතුළත උතුරට නව විදුලි බලාගාරයක්  ඉන්දු ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගිවිසුමෙන් පසු කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කිරීම සඳහා 1987 ඔක්තෝබර් 06 වන දින ඉන්දීය හමුදා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ දියත් කළ "පවන්" මෙහෙයුම ආරම්භ කොට දින 03 කට පසු උතුරේ සම්පූර්ණ විදුලිබල පද්ධතියම අඩපණ කිරීමට කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීහු කටයුතු කළහ. එදා සිට මේ දක්වා කාලය තුළ යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතිය හා සම්බන්ධ කිරීමට නොහැකි විය.   වසර 02 ක කාලයක් තුළ නිමකළ වවුනියා කිලිනොච්චි අධි සම්ප්‍රේෂණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/12)

John Pilger - Apartheid Did Not Die (1 of 6)
John Pilger
In the wake of imported solutions and reconciliation slogans gaining more ground, and our politicians are also making promises to implement LLRC recommendations, it is so relevant to see these videos to see what has happened to South Africa since the 'end' of Apartheid. Now the most hilarious thing is that S. Africans, although they have changed nothing, still have begun to teach us lesson or two about reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Following are the video links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-BtAgxhik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqGbVgOIc8U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUngOW4nNtw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Taj95237w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrXDsJ83Lw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mH1mUcE_ZE... -Full Story- (youtube.com - 21/09/12)

CATASTROIKA-This is an eye opener for blind followers of liberal economics and a death warrant to the corrupt economists (or charlatans) in Colombo.
By infowar
The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization in developed countries and search for clues on the day after Greece’s massive privatization program.... -Full Story- (dailymotion.com - 21/09/12)

Army colonel threatens to sue top general for 'concealing truth about Islam'
RT
A US Army colonel who was suspended from a top military college for teaching an anti-Islamic course is threatening to sue America’s top general for “violating academic freedom” and “caving in to Islam.” Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley’s attorneys have put Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey on notice for a possible lawsuit for “concealing the truth about Islam,” after his course was shut down for its strong anti-Islamic content. Dooley’s lawyers issued a press release stating that “the final bastion of America’s defense against Islamic jihad and Sharia, the Pentagon, fell to the enemy in... -Full Story- (rt.com - 21/09/12)

Eastern Provincial Council and the outcome
Kanthar P Balanathan, Melbourne, Australia
 It has been a congenial and agreeable day to hear the latest news that UFPA has taken control of the Eastern Provincial Council which proves to the international world, and particularly India, a few perception. (i)                   The merger of North & East is never, ever feasible. (ii)                 Even through a referendum, the merger is never, ever feasible. (iii)                East has never been part of the North. (iv)               Historically east was under the Highlands. (v)                 Majority of people in the East have openly conveyed to the world that they are SRILANKAN and do not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/12)

Learning from Sri Lanka
Arie Kruglanski, Michele Gelfand
September 19, 2012 The world has a lot to learn from Sri Lanka. This island nation, south of India, was torn by a vicious civil war for twenty-six years, which ended in 2009 with a clear victory for government forces over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since then, the ruling authorities have done a remarkable job forging reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation with the Tamil minority. This is truly an example of how military victory needs to be followed up by forgiveness and peacemaking. Without a doubt, the LTTE has been one of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/12)

Revealed: Monsanto GM corn caused tumors in rats
RT
French scientists have revealed that rats fed on GMO corn sold by American firm Monsanto, suffered tumors and other complications including kidney and liver damage. When testing the firm’s top brand weed killer the rats showed similar symptoms. The French government has asked its health and safety agency to assess the study and had also sent it to the European Union's food safety agency, Reuters reports. "Based on the conclusion…, the government will ask the European authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal health, measures that could go as far as an emergency suspension of... -Full Story- (rt.com - 20/09/12)

Ayesha’s Age at the Time of Her Marriage – A Response to “Innocence of Muslims”
By I. Ahmad                                  
 Ayesha’s Age: A response to the allegation that Ayesha was 6 or 9 when her marriage was consummated with Prophet Muhammad
 The vitriolic anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims” has caused quite a worldwide uproar. Still, Innocence of Muslims makes numerous vile accusations against Islam and its Noble Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). One of these allegations is that the Prophet (PBUH) married Ayesha (r.a.) when she was underage.  The allegations levied against both Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Ayesha (r.a.) are meritless and based wholly on ignorance. The below evidence shows that far from being 6 or 9, Ayesha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/12)

Iran makes a move, oil slides
By Chris Cook
A rapid oil price drop on Monday, September 17, took traders by surprise. [1] Who exactly dumped some 13,000 contracts of CME's West Texas Intermediate crude oil contract and 10,000 contracts of the Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE's) Brent/BFOE crude oil contract into the market cratering the price by more than US$3 per barrel? A more likely reason for the price move than these Saudi Jedi mind games is now emerging. On Tuesday, Catherine Ashton, lead negotiator for the the 5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany) involved in talks with Iran over its... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 20/09/12)

Re-visiting PWC - Part VI
Dr.Tilak Fernando
I am thankful to those old Cambrians, Sebastianites, one Thora and a Rajan, who responded to the series with some of their own experiences which goes to show youthful fun we shared, as much as the quality of the teaching staff we were privileged to learn from during our era, are being rekindled. E-mail interaction, in this respect, certainly goes to show how the series has managed to hoist a different kind of dormant 'Kundalini' among old Cambrians! The dedicated members of staff at the PWC did not concentrate blindly on a syllabus alone, but their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/12)

Bin Laden driver suspected of organizing killing of US ambassador in Libya
RT
As investigations widen in the case of the recent assault in Benghazi that left US Ambassador John Stevens and three other Americans dead, new intelligence suggests the attack was tied to al-Qaeda, and particularly an associate of Osama bin Laden. It has been suggested ever since the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi that terrorists may have been behind the raid that killed four Americans, including Mr. Stevens and a Navy SEAL, but this week the claim was heard by Congress as US lawmakers attempt to get to the bottom of the incident. "Yes, they were killed in the... -Full Story- (rt.com - 20/09/12)

The Development Infrastructure for Tourism
Garvin Karunaratne Former Governmenbt Agent. Marata District
To enable development it is essential that there has to be in place an infrastructure that will support tourism. Otherwise though the resources may be available, there will not be the necessary wherewithal to enable development. Tourism is one of our main foreign exchange earners and deserves great concern.  As an administrator of development programmes in agriculture and industry for the eighteen years I was serving the Government, I was working on various programmes that formed the infrastructure for development.  Since leaving Sri Lanka in 1973 I have happened to live and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

Over 1000 US foreign military bases yet commotion over Sri Lanka’s internal military
Shenali Waduge
“I emphasized the importance of progress in reducing the role and profile of the military in the North, and full respect for human rights” – thus said Robert Blake, an US official flying regularly to Sri Lanka bringing messages from his Government. Interesting as the statement is, it raises one simple question – in which international law book does it say that the US can have over thousands of foreign military bases while US can dictate to a sovereign nation on how to place its military inside its country? This is the question Sri Lankans like to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

“Jaffna is also a part of the country”, says Commander Security Forces Jaffna
Asada M Erpini
The Commander Security Forces Jaffna (SF-J) Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe has clearly explained to the visiting United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) team the manner in which the Army used property that belongs to civilians, according to media reports on 19 September. The Major General has said that many properties had been handed back to their owners. He has added that when the military occupies houses of civilians, the owners are paid rent and when properties are acquired the legitimate owners will receive compensation.  The issue of determining the legitimate owners of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

Malaka-Major Incident - an Insult to the Intelligence of Sri Lankans
Shenali Waduge
Much media space has been taken for an incident involving a renowned juvenile delinquent having multiple records of misbehavior and a miitary personnel at a Colombo hotel leading to the injuring of the army major. The political links ensured that the attackers remained safe enough to even worship the kapilavastu relics guarded by police who did not know there was a warrant for his arrest while the Government spokesman excused the inability to arrest as a mark of respect for the place of worship. As always if you are a politician or a someone's someone an arrest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

THE REAL FACE OF EXTREMISM
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
 Today the Muslims all over the world including Pakistan are protesting over a film which not only made fun of the Islamic teachings and preaching but also tried to (God forbid) disrepute and defame in a very derogatory manner the most honorable, respectable and no doubt the most precious man ever born since after the creation of the universe, the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH) but no one from the western world is willing to pay any heed to this protest. The whole of the western world is calling the making of this film ‘the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

Vaiko stopped en route to Sanchi
PTI
Over 1,000 MDMK workers led by the party’s general secretary Vaiko, who were stopped early on Wednesday on their way to Sanchi to protest against the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, continued with their dharna late on Wednesday night near Pandhurna on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border. Jabalpur range Inspector General V. Madhu Kumar told PTI late on Wednesday that neither Mr. Vaiko nor any of the MDMK workers was arrested, as the protest had been peaceful till now. Mr. Rajapaksa will be in Sanchi on Friday to lay the foundation for the International Buddhist University. The... -Full Story- (thehindu.com - 19/09/12)

Rajapaksa begins challenging visit to India
R. K. Radhakrishnan
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa commenced his most challenging tour of India on Wednesday during which he will meet Sri Lanka’s “old friend,” President Pranab Mukherjee, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Mr. Rajapaksa was initially slated to participate only in the Buddhist University ceremony at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh on September 21. However, a meeting with Dr. Singh was later finalised. The two met in mid-2010, but there has been no bilateral meeting since then.... -Full Story- (thehindu.com - 19/09/12)

Uniform internal physiological environment
Dr Hector Perera      London
Naturally the conditions inside our body must be controlled within certain narrow limits to function for which we called homeostasis. This is not an easy task to the body; it needs coordination of the organs in the body to maintain this state. Homeostasis is maintaining the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, relatively constant condition within the body.  These conditions include water content, ion content, body temperature and the blood glucose concentration in the blood.  I am sure you know some people have no limit when they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

India: Living in the Pocket of Uncle Sam- Mera pyara Bharat-- "I love my India"
Articles by: Colin Todhunter
When the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk from the US of a multi-polar world, where Washington would be just one influential player among many – a world where an autonomous India would play a vital role. It was nice sounding talk. But that’s all it was – talk. In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, the US has been hell-bent on achieving global superiority. The US’s orbit of influence has extended throughout Eastern Europe and into many of the former Soviet states in central Asia. While Bush senior was... -Full Story- (globalresearch.ca - 19/09/12)

West cooperates with Al-Qaeda in Syrian conflict – Communists
RT
The Russian Communist leader, Gennady Zuyganov has accused the West of double standards and hypocrisy over its position on Syria which has resulted in “gruesome bloodshed”. In his words, “When the US unleashed the Arab Spring in Africa and the Middle East; it let the genie – of Islamic fundamentalism – out of the bottle". Washington “instils extremist ideology” in the countries that used to have secular regimes, the Communist leader pointed out in a statement published on the party’s website. “By supporting radical islamists, the USA aims at impose control over the entire region and points the edge... -Full Story- (rt.com - 19/09/12)

ජර්ම්න් ධර්මදුත සංගමය සිය 60 වන සැමරුමට සූදානම් වෙයි
ජානක පෙරේරා  
 ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජර්ම්න්  ධර්මදුත සංගමය ලබන සැප්තැම්බර් 30 වැනි ඉරිදා සිය 60 වැනි සංවත්සරය (1952- 2012) සමරයි. මේ නිමිත්තෙන් එදින කොළඹ 7 සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ සම්මේලන ගොඩනැගිල්ලේ බී. එච්. විලියම් ශාලාවේ භික්ෂුන් 60 නමකට දානයක් පිරිනැමෙන අතර සංගමයේ ඉතිහාසය විදහා දැක්වෙන වාර්තාමය විඩීයෝ පටයක්ද තිර ගතකරනු ඇත.  සංගමයේ නිර්මාතෘ සහ එහි ප්‍රථම ගරු ලේකම් දිවංගත අසෝක වීරරත්න (පසුව මීතිරිගල ධම්මනිසන්ති හිමි) මහතාගේ නමින් නව වෙබ් අඩවියක්ද එදිනම විවුර්ත වනු ඇත.   වසර 1957 දී පළමු  වරට ජර්මනියට ථෙරවාදී බෞද්ධ ධර්මදුත පිරිසක් යැවූයේ ජර්ම්න්  ධර්මදුත සංගමයයි.  එම වසරේ ජූනි මසදී මුහුදු මගින් පිටත්වූ එම පිරිස පූජ්‍ය සෝම, පූජ්‍ය ඛේමින්ද සහ පූජ්‍ය බෝපේ විනීත යන හිමිවරුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත විය. ඒ සියලු දෙනම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/12)

Did Jesus have a wife?
New York Times, NBC
Posted by Hanif Koya This is an interesting question that must stir up a lot of discussions. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has always held the view that Jesus was a human being, a prophet of God and as such he married as guide and model for others. (H. Koya). Historian says piece of papyrus refers to Jesus’ wife Discovery likely to reignite debate over Mary Magdalene and women’s role in Christianity Image: Papyrus fragment A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a papyrus fragment in Coptic that she says contains the... -Full Story- (themuslimtimes.org - 19/09/12)

Muslim fury: LIVE anti-US protest timeline (PHOTOS)
RT
Muslims around the world are protesting against the US after clips from a controversial American-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammed appeared online. Almost 40 people have died in violent clashes triggered by the video. ­17:31 GMT: The assault on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans died last week, was a “terrorist attack”, Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. The attack might have had Al-Qaeda links, though a “number of different elements" were involved, he said. 15:03 GMT: Sudan blocks YouTube over the controversial video until the... -Full Story- (rt.com - 19/09/12)

Obama at a Syrian crossroads
By Victor Kotsev
United States policy in Syria is at a crossroads. The current situation is untenable: the bloodshed continues unabated, while spillover threatens all the neighboring countries, and by extension, US interests. Powerful ethno-nationalist movements are stirring, most importantly among the Kurds, and are threatening to confront the international community with a new reality on the ground. Rival powers Russia and China (each in its own way), sensing American weakness following the embassy attacks and riots throughout the Muslim world in the last week, are positioning to cash in. On the other hand, there are simply no easy... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 19/09/12)

US right loses sense over embassy protests
By Stephen Zunes
It seems bizarre that right-wing pundits would be so desperate to use the recent anti-American protests in the Middle East - in most cases numbering only a few hundred people and (except for a peaceful Hezbollah-organized rally in Lebanon) in no cases numbering more than two or three thousand - as somehow indicative of why the United States should oppose greater democracy in the Middle East. Even more strangely, some media pundits are criticizing Arabs as being "ungrateful" for US support of pro-democracy movements when, in reality, the United States initially opposed the popular movements... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 19/09/12)

Obama at a Syrian crossroads
By Victor Kotsev
United States policy in Syria is at a crossroads. The current situation is untenable: the bloodshed continues unabated, while spillover threatens all the neighboring countries, and by extension, US interests. Powerful ethno-nationalist movements are stirring, most importantly among the Kurds, and are threatening to confront the international community with a new reality on the ground. Rival powers Russia and China (each in its own way), sensing American weakness following the embassy attacks and riots throughout the Muslim world in the last week, are positioning to cash in. On the other hand, there are simply no easy... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 19/09/12)

THE ROVING EYE - USS Romney goes Titanic
Pepe Escobar
Willard "Mitt" Romney comfortably sees himself as the chief executive officer of a US$1 billion enterprise - the Republican Party election campaign that should place him as the next President of the United States (POTUS). Meanwhile, current POTUS Barack Obama is increasingly convinced he just needs to deploy a secret weapon to clinch re-election. That weapon is Mitt Romney. USS Romney is like one of those state-of-the art aircraft carriers parked somewhere between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The problem is, at winter and the November presidential election approaches Washington, it has hit not only... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 19/09/12)

Unrest feared: French mag publishes more caricatures of Mohammed
RT
A French satirical magazine has published controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday as worldwide protests continue against a US film. France announced it would close embassies and schools in around 20 countries, fearing violence. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published the caricatures on Wednesday, saying the illustrations would "shock those who will want to be shocked." Nude illustrations of Mohammed were included among the various caricatures in the release. Meanwhile, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Parisian kiosks sold out all copies of the magazine almost as soon as it hit the shelves. Charlie Hebdo’s website went... -Full Story- (rt.com - 19/09/12)

'US ambassador to Libya was shot like a dog' – Zyuganov
RT
US authorities said the Twitter post by the leader of Russian communists in which he harshly commented on the US ambassador’s death at the hands of rioting mob in Libya would not be left without consequences. Earlier this week Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), said in his official Twitter feed that the US ambassador to Libya was “shot like a dog”, adding that the diplomat had reaped what he had sown. Officials in the United States expressed outrage over the comment and also said they were surprised by it, as Zyuganov has... -Full Story- (rt.com - 19/09/12)

An Outsider’s View—21-COLOMBO DON IN HURRY CLAIMS CREDIT FOR ‘FIRST EPISTEMOLOGICAL MODEL OF COMMUNICATION’ BASED ON KALAMA SUTTA
By Shelton A. Gunaratne, professor of mass communications emeritus  Minnesota State University
Because I have been applying Buddhist philosophy for more than a decade to critique the well-known Newtonian-Cartesian research paradigm and to develop a universally applicable systems approach based on the principles of dependent co-origination (paticca samuppada), I was curious to read an article titled “Encounter of the week: Our heritage as a model” (published in the Daily News Artscope, 5 Sept. 2012) about the claims of a Colombo University don, described as “the first Sri Lankan female professor of  journalism and communication studies.” The article does not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

Sino-Japanese Standoff and International Politics
By Afshain Afzal
It is always difficult to guess on which side camel will sit but the recent statement of Japanese Liberal Democratic Party's Secretary General, Nobuteru Ishihara, has given quite clear signals from Washington. Ishihara said, "Our relations with China are at their worst ever since the normalization of relations between the two countries. It is precisely because the US-Japan alliance is shaken that neighbouring countries keep entering Japan's territory and Japan’s peace and safety have come under great threat."  It is pertinent to mention here that relations with Washington had also turned hostile after the ruling... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

IMCMEX-2012 – A show of muscles
By Afshain Afzal
A hypothetical situation has created in which harsh sanctions imposed over Iran would ultimately lead to blockade of the Arabian Gulf. Iran would try to block oil shipping lanes to US and Israel, which will be taken as threat to the world trade. With this background, the International Mine Counter-Measures Exercise 2012, code named IMCMEX-2012, started in the Arabian Gulf from 16 to 27 September 2012. Navies of 6 countries and 25 (30) nations including US, Britain, Japan, France, Yemen and Jordan are participating. The areas have been divided into four zones North (Bahrain), South (Oman),... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

ASOKA WEERARATNA AND MAHINDA COLLEGE – NOSTALGIC MEMORIES
by W.   P A N D I T A R A T N E
  In the year 1942, Mahinda College, Galle was fifty years old and the Golden Jubilee celebration to commemorate its eventful history of the first twenty years at Pedlar Street in the Galle Fort, and the next thirty years in the purpose built school buildings on Elliot Road, Minuwangoda, Galle were due to be celebrated.   Over five thousand students had been admitted to the school during the first fifty years and around six hundred of them with a sprinkling of a few girls, all... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

න්ය ෂ්ටික විකිරණශීලී කන්ටේනරය නැවත හරවා යැවීමට පියවර.
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය
• භාණ්ඩ කට්ටල 128 ක්, කොබෝල්ට් 60 කෘතිම විකිරණශීලී ද්‍රව්‍යයෙන් අපවිත්‍ර වී ඇති බවට තහවුරු වේ.   • දේශීය වෙළඳපොලට භාණ්ඩ නිකුත් නොකිරීමට සහ එම කන්ටේනරය නැවත හරවා යවන ලෙස පරමාණු ශක්ති අධිකාරියෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය රේගුවට දැනුම්දෙයි.   • ආනයනය කරන සියළුම ආහාර සහ භාණ්ඩ, පරමාණු ශක්ති අධිකාරියේ විිශේෂ පරීක්ෂාවකට ලක් කෙර්.    පසුගිය 13 වන බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා ඉන්දියාවේ සිට ශ්‍රි ලංකාවට පැමිණි නෞකාවකින් ගොඩබෑ අඩි 40 ං අඩි 40 ප්‍රමාණයේ  කන්ටේනරයක කෘතිම විකිරණශීලීතාවක් ඇති බවට වරාය අධිකාරියේ ප්‍රධාන පිවිසුම් දොරටුව ආශ්‍රිතව සවි කර ඇති පරමාණු ශක්ති අධිකාරියේ විකිරණ මනින උපකරණ වලට හසුවී තිබේ. එම කන්ටේනරය පිළිබඳව විශේෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

SARATH FONSEKA SAYS ELECTION RESULTS SCREAM FOR THE UNITY OF THE OPPOSITION PARTIES OF THE COUNTRY
by Walter Jayawardhana
The Provincial Council election results scream for the unity of the opposition political parties of the country to deliver the nation from rulers rotten with corruption as an absolute necessacity said former army commander Sarath Fonseka addressing a meeting in Kurunegala. Addressing a group of intellectuals in the North Western city Fonseka said the polity of the country during the last 50 years did not do good to the country except in 2010 elections when all opposition parties were united under one banner and that was a reason that he was attracted to seek political office... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/12)

Russia's 'big bang' in Central Asia
By M K Bhadrakumar
A period of intense high-level exchange is commencing this week between Russia and its Central Asian allies - and Pakistan. What characterizes the Russian strategy is a robust attempt to develop comprehensive partnerships with these countries in preparation of the post-2014 scenario in Afghanistan with the expected withdrawal of the troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Russian focus is, not surprisingly, on the three countries to the north and south of Afghanistan - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan. Russian President Vladimir Putin's forthcoming visit to Bishkek on Thursday promises to be a... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 18/09/12)

Maybe it's just me …By Chan Akya
The pressures of holidays and catch up work were so intense to keep me off the write path (nice pun, right?) for the past few weeks. Like a weed taking over a garden, this gap has allowed a dozen odd stories to go uncommented upon. The following is a compendium of news articles wherein it doesn't appear to me that the wider media have managed to draw coherent conclusions, or at least thought things through fully.Iran and the nukesSo let's start off with one of those old chestnuts namely the idea of nuclear power in the hands of that (as... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 18/09/12)

US 'pivot' as bankrupt diplomacy
By George Amurao
During United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent regional tour, America's top diplomat acknowledged the crucial role economic aid will play in the US's "pivot" towards Asia. Despite that recognition, Clinton failed to present concrete plans for a significant boost in non-military aid to allies in Southeast Asia, underscoring the US's fiscal straits and future ability to project financial power. As the US bids to recalibrate its foreign policy more towards Asia, the world's lone superpower faces the dual challenge of China's growing military muscle and stores of soft power accumulated through years of checkbook... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 18/09/12)

Pattali Makkal Katchi ( PMK) Leader Ramdoss With His Track Record As A Pro Eelamist And Agitative Rabble Rouser On Many Fronts in Indian Politics Has No Say On Sri Lanka Matters .
Insight By Sunil Kumar
September 18th 2012  A man with a notoriety for agitating, rabble rousing and creating disturbances on the Indian political front, one of a motley crew of the same ilk as Jayalalitha, Karunanidi, Vaiko and Co. has had the nerve to get involved in matters apparently way beyond his comprehension albeit steeped in pro Eelamist bias and needs to be responded to. The reference is being made to none other tham Mr S.Ramdoss- leader of the PMK Party of Tamil Nadu.  The world by now should be aware that Sri Lanka is being targetted by her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

Alleged assault on Major: Seven including Malaka remanded
Sarath MALALASEKERA Courtesy TheDaily News
The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) yesterday produced seven suspects including Minister Mervyn Silva’s son Malaka before Colombo Fort magistrate and additional district Judge Kaviska Wijeratne in connection with a complaint by Major Chandana Pradeep that he was assaulted by several persons and relieved of his official weapon, mobile phone and the car key. The seven suspects produced before court were remanded until September 24. Of the seven suspects, only two suspects, Malaka and Rehan Wijeratne, were produced in open court. The other suspects were kept in a closed Police vehicle to produce them before an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

US hypocrites want to have "indefinite detention' of terror suspects:U.S. Warns Ruling Impedes Its Detention Powers
News from US
The Obama administration warned Monday that a judge’s ruling last week blocking a statute authorizing the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects has jeopardized its ability to continue detaining certain prisoners captured during the war in Afghanistan. In an emergency appeal of the ruling, the government asserted that United States District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest went beyond enjoining the statute — enacted last year as part of the National Defense Authorization Act — and potentially curtailed detention powers it has been exercising for years under its interpretation of the authorization to use military force against the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

ජල විදුලියේ පියා "ඩී.ජ්. විමලසුරේන්ද්ර " ශ්රීිමතාණන්ගේ 138 වන ජන්ම දිනය සැමරේ.
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය 
•        විමලසුරේන්ද්‍ර ශ්‍රීමතාණන් වැනි රට ගැන සිතන, ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ගරු කළ සහ අලූත් දේ කළ ඉංජිනේරුවන් බිහි නොවීම රටට ලොකු පාඩුවක්.  •        තම අයිතිවාසිකම් ගැන පමණක්ම නොසිතා ආයතනය සහ රට ගැන සිතා අද සිට වැඩ කරන්නට අදිටන්  කරගන්නා ලෙස සියළුම ලංවිම සේවකයන්ට ඇමති චම්පිකගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්.                              1874 උපන් ඩී.ජ්. විමලසුරේන්ද්‍ර මහතාගේ 138 වන ජන්ම දින සැමරුම අමාත්‍ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද උදෑසන ලංවිම ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයීය පරිශ්‍රයේදී පැවැත්විණ. 1914 වර්ෂයේදී ජල විදුලිය හරහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආර්ථීකය ශක්තිමත් කළ හැකි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

The German Dharmaduta Society to celebrate 60th anniversary
Janaka Perera
The German Dharmaduta Society, Sri Lanka will mark its 60th Anniversary (1952-2012) with an alms giving to 60 Buddhist monks at the B.H. William Hall, All Ceylon Buddhist Congress, Colombo on Sunday September 23. Among the highlights of the day’s proceedings will be the screening of a video documentary on the history of the GDS and a new website dedicated to its founder Asoka Weeraratne.   The society was the first to send a Theravada Buddhist Mission to Germany in 1957 when it was known as the Lanka Dharmadutha Society.  Weeraratne also founded the Berlin Buddhist Vihara and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

දේව කන්නලව
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනිනි
රකුසන් රජව මිනිසුන් බිලිගත්   යුගය නිමවා ලන්න සක්දෙව් රජ දුන්   සවිය වටහා ගන්න මේ ජන මන සවි    මදිය රදවා දෙන්න  පින්බිම පෙරටත් වැඩිය සතුරන් සමග එකතුව රට කෑ    සත්තු මිතුරන් විලස වැජඹෙ ජන හද   ගත්තු ජනතා හදේ විරුවන් වූ මේ       සත්තු  විනකම් කලේ වෙත ඔබ නිම වූ පුත්තු ජන මන සසල කරවන ලද ඒ    පුවත පැතුරුණ විටදි රට කළඹා දස    දිගත දඩුවම් දෙන්න සූදානම් රජෙක්   නැත සකසා දෙන්න ඒ රජ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/12)

SPENGLER- All-out Middle East war as good as it gets
By Spengler
TEL AVIV - It is hard to remember a moment when the United States' foreign policy establishment showed as much unanimity as in its horror at the prospect of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran. In a September 10 report for Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, Anthony Cordesman warns, "A strike by Israel on Iran will give rise to regional instability and conflict as well as terrorism. The regional security consequences will be catastrophic." And a "bi-partisan" experts' group headed by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and co-signed by most of the... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 17/09/12)

Obama rethinks the Arab Spring
By Victor Kotsev
The recent attacks on American and European embassies and the riots throughout the Muslim world are bringing home what the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran failed to get across: that much of the world strongly resents Western hegemony. Amid chants of "Listen, listen, oh Obama! The entire nation is Osama!" and placards stating "Our dead are in paradise. Your dead are in hell" even Americans are waking up - with a start - to this uncomfortable reality. The reasons for these sentiments are complex, and some of the hype is overblown. There are plenty... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 17/09/12)

Pen Portrait of Anagarika Dharmapala
By Gomin Dayasri
 Had he lived in Colombo in 2012 amongst i-pads and i-phones, Nokia and Reebok, Anagarika Dharmapala would have mocked the Colombians as a fawning cringing crawling mob that worshipped at the alter of the UNP and with fortunes changing offer pooja before the shrine of Mahinda Rajapakse, solely for personal advancement in search of mercenary merchandise. He would have treated any form of patronage with disdain - he did not care two hoots for position or personality, colloquially spoken.  He lived in more complicated times under the yoke of Smiths’ and Joneses’ and yet feared not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Anagarika Dharmapala’s vision for Asia
Janaka Perera
 Much has been written on Anagarika Dharmapala’s contributions to the Buddhist cause but little attention has been paid to his perception of international politics vis-à-vis Sri Lanka – a view that is valid now as then although the global scene has undergone vast changes during the past 100 years.   As we commemorate his 148th birth anniversary that falls  on Monday September 17 it is worth recalling his  views at a time when European colonialism was at its peak.   During the Anagarika's time the rise of Japan greatly disturbed European colonialists who called it the "yellow peril." Around... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Strategic Military Presence Can Be Anywhere As The Government Decides!
by Dr. Chandana Jayalath
Robert Blake, one time American ambassador to Sri Lanka, the incumbent assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs in the U.S. State Department again reiterated his popular call for accountability, transparency, investigation and prosecution. As in previous visits he was talking about "serious allegations of human rights violations" giving reference to the period of the intense battle between the Tamil Tiger cadre, who were using heavy artillery amongst the civilians as cover, and the government in the humanitarian efforts in 2009. The new addition to his statement is "the importance of progress in reducing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Robert O'Blake: Comments on his recent visit to Sri Lanka
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
16 September 2012 Robert O'Blake Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia State Department, Washington, US   Dear Bob: I just read in India’s Hindu, bylined R.K.Radhakrishnan that you had asked the Sri Lankan government to show “accelerated progress” in speeding up the process of reconciliation and granting political rights to the Tamils of the North.” Wow! Come again Bob, did you really say that?  Now, really! Before I ask you,Who the hell are you Yankee to demand that from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Who killed US Ambassador to Libya?
By Afshain Afzal
In a tragic incident that left deep dent in the effort to bring the world communities on the path of tolerance and acceptability, a group of evil minded persons tried to push Muslims to a stage of retaliation by giving publicity to a blasphemous film produced last year. In another incident in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a member from diplomatic corps, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and three other individuals died due to suffocation while at least 12 Americans received minor burns injuries, which left a deep sense of grief and sorrow for many? The fact... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

NATO strike kills women and girls gathering firewood – Afghan officials (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
RT
A NATO airstrike killed eight women and girls in eastern Afghanistan, local officials reported. The alliance said the strike targeted 45 armed insurgents but admitted some civilians may have been killed. The women were gathering firewood when they were killed by the strike, spokesperson for the Laghman provincial government Sarhadi Zewak said. Several women were also injured during the NATO strike, he added. Villagers brought the victims’ bodies to the local governor’s office on Sunday in the wake of the attack, amid cries of “Death to America!” said Zewak. Seven females are now in nearby hospitals receiving treatment, some... -Full Story- (rt.com - 16/09/12)

Book Launching of "Ancient Ravana"
Sri Lanka News
Legend of Ramayana has a different version in Lanka. (Sri Lanka).As In the Bengali version of the story, Sri Lankan version depicts Ravana as the hero; and this narrative was again taken up by the nineteenth century Bengali writer, Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73), whose own epic retelling of the Ramayana portrays Rama as a weak and effeminate figure representing an earlier stage of political naivete and parochialism There are more than Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation, finds itself at the centre of a fresh controversy. It has been dropped from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Jackals and the mafia of crooks
Editorial -The Sunday Times- Sri Lanka
The news that the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) which regulates the stock market is investigating 17 alleged manipulators is in the public domain now. This was revealed in this newspaper three weeks ago and remains un-contradicted. No doubt, these 17 remain innocent until proven guilty, but the question is why the Government – or Parliament, is maintaining a deafening silence on the issue. There’s little to wonder why. Colombo being a relatively small city with a ‘chattering class’, it is common tattle that meny of, the 17 ‘suspects’ are closely linked to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/12)

Background of the Diamond Sutra
What Is A Sutra? A Brief History of The Diamond SutraHidden for centuries in a sealed-up cave in north-west China, this copy of the 'Diamond Sutra' is the world's earliest complete survival of a dated printed book. It was made in AD 868. Seven strips of yellow-stained paper were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over 5m long. Though written in Chinese, the text is one of the most important sacred works of the Buddhist faith, which was founded in India. Although not the earliest example of a printed book, it is... -Full Story- (diamond-sutra.com - 16/09/12)

Buddhism's Diamond Sutra: The Extraordinary Discovery Of The World's Oldest Book
Joyce Morgan
Ask people to name the world's oldest printed book and the common reply is Gutenberg's Bible. Few venture that the answer is a revered Buddhist text called the Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 A.D. Or that by the time Gutenberg got ink on his fingers nearly 600 years later -- and his revolutionary technology helped usher in the Enlightenment -- this copy of the Diamond Sutra had been hidden for several centuries in a sacred cave on the edge of the Gobi Desert and would remain there for several more.... -Full Story- (huffingtonpost.com - 16/09/12)

Let's talk about animal welfare
Source Straits Times Date 14 Sep 2012 Author Andy Ho
THE Animal Welfare Legislation Review Committee chaired by Mr Yeo Guat Kwang, an MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, is holding an electronic consultation until Oct 5 to see how to improve the law for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and to find new ways to boost stakeholder involvement in animal welfare. The e-consultation by questionnaire over the Internet is part of the legislative agenda of the Government Parliamentary Committee for National Development. It follows six face-to-face consultations held from May to July with more than 170... -Full Story- (singaporelawwatch.sg - 16/09/12)

Pakistan: Center of the Grand Chessboard-A Film by Saad Ali
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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle takes flight on a targeted mission from Shamsi Airfield, an airstrip subleased to the United States by the UAE from inside the southwest region of Pakistan. At the same time a farmer awakes, in northwest Pakistan, happy; a husband and father of four with his youngest daughter just married the day before. After reaching a service ceiling of 25,000 ft. and cruising speed of 103 mph the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator begins descending to its destination. Hamid Abdullah, a refugee I met during my travels to the northwest border region, was a hardworking man, kind,... -Full Story- (forbiddenknowledgetv.com - 16/09/12)

TRENDS and TRAILS at RECENT ELECTIONS
By  Gomin Dayasri
Winning elections is an art to master; some do: others’ don’t, distinction surfaces in serial triumphs and failures-not on a one-off, win or defeat. There is a lesson to be learnt before grasping the basics that lead to a winning frenzy – read the mind and soul of the electors correctly before the play is enacted. Performance can be brusque or risqué, styled vaudeville or pantomime; any crudity or absurdity suffices, provided it appeals to the masses. Fool them more: more get attracted- hearts and minds are reached faster on track stupid. Regrets flow later when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Increase Education Allocation to 3% after Establishing Equity and Efficiency with Focus on Primary Education
Dilrook Kannangara
University students led by NGO activists and JVP bankrupts have launched another round of strikes. This time their demand is to raise education allocation to 6% from the present 1.9%. They credit themselves as “the most intelligent” or the “cream” of the society which is an apparent lie because they don’t seem to understand numbers and their true worth and burden. Even Japan with its very high Human Development Index allocates only around 3% of GDP to education and that is adequate. There is little argument against increasing the education spend if it benefits the nation. Bulk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Misleading the Tamils the Blake way…
 Shenali Waduge
The Sri Lankan Government “was all set for the complete implementation of the 13th amendment immediately after war….was the key notion propagated by US assistant state secretary Robert O Blake….throughout the war ambassador Blake was preaching on 13th amendment …………… He even went to Chennai to lecture Sri Lanka activists there on 13th amendment and political solution. He was assuring us a new era with 13 plus. It was technically the justification for the US support to the war efforts. Now even after the war and it’s devastation, Tamils in this country are nowhere near 13th... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Call to hold a National Referendum to Withdraw the 13th Amendment to abolish Provincial Councils and instead Grant Adequate Decentralized Powers to Districts
Media Release  -GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR PEACE AND UNITY IN SRI LANKA
1. Remembering that the three decade long threat to the break-up of Sri Lanka was averted following the military defeat of the heavily armed Tamil Tigers (LTTE) by the brave men and women of the security forces of the Nation under the able leadership and wholehearted commitment given by His Excellency, Mahinda Rajapakse and the National Government, through a concerted military action which was successfully concluded on May 19, 2009.  2. Recalling with gratitude the immense sacrifices made by each and every member of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

JAYALLITHA WANTS TO GO TO COURTS TO GET KATCHATEEVU
Walter Jayawardhana
In another apparent headline and vote catching attempt for her AIADMK in the coming elections Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Jayalalitha said she will soon go the Supreme Court seeking that the 1974 and 1976 accords under which Katchateevu islet that was ceded to Sri Lanka by the Central government of India was illegal.   Jayalalitha said she wants to pave the way for the retrieval of the people  less parched sandy island in her latest anti-Sri Lanka move. Tamil Nadu government on Saturday said it has decided to move the Supreme Court for expediting a pending case... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Sri Lanka shares its poverty eradication experience at the 21st Session of the HRC
THE PERMANENT MISSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE IN GENEVA
The Sri Lanka Delegation to the 21st Session of the Human Rights Council, intervening in the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on 'Extreme Poverty', has emphasized that States and economic actors must take concerted efforts to address extreme poverty and create an enabling environment for sustainable economic development, which is accessible to all. Noting that Sri Lanka considers the Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights as a tool, which can lead to developing and shaping measures and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Dawn of the Eco-Mafia. – Sinharaja Rain Forest: Sri Lanka
Sumal
Any singular gang or wider network committing “Organized crimes” that cause damage to the environment; or engaged in any lucrative activity related with the environment, represent what is currently known as Eco-Mafia.  The term "Eco- mafia" is not rhetorical exaggeration. Indonesia has one of the world's largest areas of remaining Virgin Rain forests, but is being deforested by the timber mafia or by other mafia gangs working hand to hand with Palm oil corporations. The deforestation rate of the Indonesia-Borneo rain forests is something devastatingly increasing only ranking behind the Brazil . A Sophisticated Eco-mafia network is highly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Container of radioactive goods seized at Colombo Port -Scanners find high concentration of Cobalt 60 :න්‍යෂ්ටික විකිරණශීලී කන්ටේනරයක් රේගු අත්අඩංගුවට පරමාණුක ශක්ති අධිකාරිය පරීක්ෂණ අරඹයි කොබෝල්ටි 60 කෘතිම විකිරණශීලී ද්‍රව්‍ය ඇති බවට තහවුරු වේ භාණ්ඩ දේශීය වෙළෙඳපොළට නිකුත් කිරීම තහනම් කෙරේ
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය
Sri Lanka Customs has detained a container load of highly radioactive stainless steel and aluminium household articles imported from India. Tests conducted by the Atomic Energy Authority of Sri Lanka have determined that the goods (125 items) unloaded at the Colombo Port on Thursday contained high concentrations of Cobalt 60, a radioactive substance usually used to treat cancer. The Authority has banned the entry of these goods to the market. The radioactive nature of the goods was revealed in a routine scan by radiation scanners installed at the Colombo Port by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/12)

Hillary Clinton cannot align Russia against Syria
Source: Pravda.Ru
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stressed on Sunday that a new resolution of the United Nations (UN) on Syria would be meaningless if it did not have "consequences" for non-compliance . "It makes no sense to adopt a resolution without consequences, because we have seen many times that Bashar al-Assad (Syrian President) has ignored them," Clinton regurgitated this lie on the sidelines of the Forum of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting in Vladivostok (Russia).... -Full Story- (english.pravda.ru - 15/09/12)

Freedom of Speech & The Right to Speak - Is there a difference?
Prof. Hudson McLean
 As one of the essential fundamental principles of Democracy, Yes, Freedom of Speech is a Right to Behold in every civilized country.  However, Freedom of Speech does not give the Right to Speak, to humiliate, denigrate the Human Rights of another. The Right to Belief, is  intangible and   invisible, an important Personal Human Right.  Any person violating that Right, crosses the Fine Line of Democracy.  Whether one is a Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Judaism or indeed  an Atheist, a civilised open discussion is one thing, but flagrante humiliating in any way is Vulgar, Uncivilized, Uneducated,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

U.S. wants speedy progress in Sri Lanka reconciliation process
R. K. Radhakrishnan Courtesy The Hindu
The Hindu United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert O’ Blake. Photo: R.K. Radhakrishnan United States wants the Sri Lankan government to show “accelerated progress” in speeding up the process of reconciliation and granting of political rights to the Tamils of the North. Asked to elaborate on what “accelerated progress” meant, United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert O’ Blake said here on Friday that it is “incumbent on the government to show that it is committed by doing everything it can, as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

Iran: Why now, and what now?
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
13 September 2012 Editor EMBASSY   Ottawa Dear Editor: Ally Foster has asked an interesting question about the Canadian Foreign Ministry action on Iran. ‘Iran: Why now, and what now? The question is a valid one and the question needs to be answered to satisfy the swirling speculations among the Canadian-Iran community, academics and security analysts as to why now when the Iranian-Canadian bilateral relations were on the rocks for years. Perhaps we the John Q public are not privy to what Foreign Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

THE ROVING EYE - Brother Obama, where art thou?
Pepe Escobar
MENA (Middle East/North Africa) is on fire. The diffuse rage - even if manifested by a tiny minority - is distinctly anti-American. Protests in Cairo have reached Sanaa in Yemen and even Bangladesh. The administration of US President Barack Obama is perplexed beyond belief. There will be revenge. What's really going on? It does not matter whether that infamous, crude, made-in-California anti-Islam and anti-Prophet Muhammad flick - actually financed/produced by an Egyptian Christian Copt and American protestants, instead of a non-existent Jewish real-estate developer - was just a pretext that led to the killing of the US... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 14/09/12)

Putin opens Benghazi door for Obama
By M K Bhadrakumar
At a time when the United States-Russia "reset" lies in limbo, it should come as no surprise that President Vladimir Putin has made one of the most important statements of his four-month-old presidency, drawing attention to the commonality of interests between the two major world powers and indeed between Russia and the West on one of the hottest issues of current world politics - the Middle Eastern question. Putin's statement on Thursday came in the nature of his reaction to the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the killing of... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 14/09/12)

මර්වින් ජනාධිපති හමු වී මාලකට ඇප ලබා ගනී! -Over 2,000 cops, 500 commandos fail to arrest Mervyn's son, Malaka
2012 සැප්තැම්බර් 13 වෙනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා, 17:16
පැය 24 තුළ වහාම අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා ලෙස ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා විසින් කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශයට නියම කළ මාලක සිල්වා සහ රෙහාන් විජේරත්න අද (13) කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය වෙත ගොස් කට උත්තරයක් ලබා දී සුව සේ නික්ම ගිය බව වාර්තා වේ. කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය භාර නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති  මහතා ඔහුගේ සමීපතම මිතුරෙකු වන අමාත්‍ය මර්වින් සිල්වා මහතාට කතා කොට “ඇමතිතුමා තත්වය දරුණුයි. සෙකට්‍රිට හොදටම තද වෙලා. ආමි කාරයෙක්ට ගැහුවා කියලා. වහාම ගිහිල්ලා ජනාධිපති හම්බවෙලා ඇපයක් දා ගන්න. නැත්නම් මට ඇරෙස්ට් කරන්න වෙනවා. ’’ යනුවෙන් පවසා ඇත. නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරයාගේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි මර්වින් අමාත්‍යවරයා ජනාධිපතිවරයා හමුවී පවසා ඇත්තේ “සර්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

Alternative fuels are needed because fossil fuels are running out.
Dr Hector Perera      London
A German research with a super computer estimated that 500 billion galaxies exist.  The amount of hydrogen in the universe is truly gigantic, and the natural biological environment of our Earth appears to be the same as 1,000’s of other planets. A galaxy is a vast, gravitationally bound collection of billions of stars and their associated, nebulae, stellar remnants, planets and a whole host of other smaller particles including the basic elements hydrogen and helium. Galaxies also consist of an important but poorly understood substance called dark matter. It is believed to surround every galaxy and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

Photographic Exhibition on " Recent progress on reconciliation & development in Sri Lanka "
The High Commission of Sri Lanka
cordially invites you
to a Photographic Exhibition on
“Recent progress on reconciliation & development in Sri Lanka”
  at the Sri Lanka High Commission 13, Hyde Park Gardens London, W2 2LU   on 20th September 2012 from 9.30am - 9.30pm.     (Nearest Tube Station: Paddington/ Lancaster Gate)           High Commission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 13, Hyde Park Gardens London W2 2LU United Kingdom   Tel   : 020 72621841 Fax : 020 72627970 Email : mail
slhc-london.co.uk   Visit our Web :... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

Sanchi Buddhist and Indian Knowledge Studies University
Courtesy:  Buddhist Channel
Madhya Pradesh, India -- The State Cabinet on Monday endorsed three ordinances, including the one on Sanchi Buddhist and Indian Knowledge Studies University. The Cabinet also endorsed amended ordinance regarding Techno-Global Private University in Vidisha district and Underground Pipeline, Cable and Duct (Acquisition of Powers for Land Use) Ordinance 2012. The ordinance on Sanchi university includes six major provisions, including teaching of Dharma/ Dhamma in the context of varied knowledge traditions and contemporary context without negating the views and practices prevailing in other countries. The ordinance provides for maximum interaction among Asian countries with forceful historic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

Buddhist Studies Varsity in Sanchi
by LALIT SHASTRI-Courtesy:  Buddhist Channel
Sanchi, India -- Sanchi University for Buddhist Studies is being set up at the initiative of the Madhya Pradesh government at Sanchi — the historic town near the state capital known for the world heritage Buddhist monuments dating back to the period of Ashoka in the third century BC. Briefing mediapersons, MP culture minister Laxmikant Sharma said the Sanchi University for Buddhist Studies will be devoted to the study and research on Buddhist thought in all its dimensions. He announced that the university’s foundation stone would be laid on September 21. Coinciding with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/12)

'Arab Fall': LIVE timeline of anti-US rage (PHOTOS)
RT
Anti-US protests have engulfed much of the Arab world after clips from a controversial film satirizing the Prophet Muhammad appeared online. Embassies in Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Tunisia have been attacked by angry demonstrators. 21:31 GMT: The Egyptian state news agency reported 27 people were injured in Friday’s protests, also saying that at least 250 people have been injured in Egypt alone since the start of the protests on Wednesday. 21:26 GMT: CNN has reported that Tunisian soldiers are providing assistance to US marines defending the American Embassy in Tunis. 20:38 GMT: RT’s Paula Slier continues her live twitter... -Full Story- (rt.com - 14/09/12)

Three protesters killed as crowds attempt to storm US, German, UK embassies in Sudan
RT
Three protesters have been killed in front of the US embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum after being run over by police vehicles, according to Al Jazeera. More than 5,000 demonstrators have gathered in front of the embassy, setting fires on a square nearby. Many of the demonstrators were bussed to the location from the UK and German embassies, according to Reuters. A spokesperson for the US embassy says all protesters were expelled from inside the compound. Local witnesses reported on Twitter that a mob of an estimated ten to 15 thousand people were torching the building. Gunfire... -Full Story- (rt.com - 14/09/12)

Protesters torch KFC in Tripoli, Lebanon (PHOTOS)
RT
Demonstrators in Tripoli, Lebanon, burned down a restaurant belonging to US-based chain KFC in protest against an anti-Islamic film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. At least one person was killed and 24 were wounded in the clashes with police. Following Friday prayers, hundreds of demonstrators massed in protest against the Pope's three-day visit to Lebanon and shouted anti-American slogans. The chants included "We don't want the Pope," and "No more insults [to Islam]," witnesses reported.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 14/09/12)

Three killed, 29 injured as Tunisian protesters clash with police, scale US embassy walls (PHOTO, VIDEO)
RT
At least three people have been killed and 29 wounded near the US embassy in Tunis as protesters attacked the compound, climbing the gates of the diplomatic complex and tearing down the US flag. After a few hours of violent and deadly clashes between outraged protesters and police officers, security forces managed to expel the demonstrators from inside the embassy compound. The clashes took place after protesters left Friday evening prayers and marched to the embassy. Demonstrators had been protesting peacefully for hours when about 300 started to break through the gates. Witnesses reported that the embassy’s US flag... -Full Story- (rt.com - 14/09/12)

Lessons for US from the death of its ambassador in Libya
 Shenali Waduge
The deaths of US ambassador to Libya and several others has many lessons though none of which is likely to perturb or change how US strategy has evolved to make America the world’s self-declared super bully. The marked difference in US and China is clearly that whilst China’s strategy has been to tap the local leaders of the nations that has geopolitical interest, the US and West have been adopting a very third grade approach by picking groups of frustrated youth, training them as rebels, arming them and then guiding them to destabilize nations through armed insurrections... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

Frankenstein's monster on the rampage
Island Editorial -Courtesy The Island
Wednesday's killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya has shocked the world. That barbaric crime must be condemned by one and all and the perpetrators brought to justice. That the killers had been provoked by a spoof of Islam cannot be cited in extenuation of that brutal act. President Barack Obama has vowed to track them down. It is a supreme irony that the place where the US diplomats perished is Benghazi, described as the cradle of US-backed uprising against Gaddafi. Where are those who danced in the streets,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

'US has supported Arab uprisings, and now it’s blowback time'
RT
America is finally reaping what it has sowed by helping NATO overthrow Gaddafi’s Libya, broadcaster and journalist Neil Clark told RT. The US government is losing its grip on Libya, Egypt, and the rest of the Arab world, he said. Clark spoke with RT about the violent protests outside the US embassies in Egypt, Yemen, and Libya. RT: What's your assessment of who's behind the worst of this violence – does it seem heavily-orchestrated to you? Neil Clark: It does, actually. Remember the old saying, ‘You reap what you sow?’ The US is really reaping what it’s sowed. Let’s... -Full Story- (rt.com - 13/09/12)

At least 4 killed as Yemeni protesters clash with police outside US embassy in Sana'a - reports (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
RT
At least 4 protesters have reportedly been killed in Yemen, after hundreds of demonstrators stormed the US embassy in the capital city of Sana'a. Dozens more have reportedly been injured. Conflicting casualty figures have emerged: Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that at least one person was killed in the clashes, citing witnesses, while the Yemeni embassy in Washington denied reports of fatalities. Embassy staffers were taken to a secure location, the Yemen Times reported. Plumes of smoke rose outside the embassy as protesters chanted "Death to America", witnesses reported. Two cars exploded after two bombs were thrown into the... -Full Story- (rt.com - 13/09/12)

Egypt protests: Сars torched, police firebombed at US Embassy (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT
Egyptian protesters set a car on fire, erected barricades, and threw Molotov cocktails at officers outside the US Embassy in Cairo on Thursday. Security forces formed a ring around the embassy and threw stones at demonstrators. Earlier in the day, police fired tear gas and warning shots at the crowd. 224 demonstrators were injured and at least 12 others arrested. Tensions continue to mount, as a crowd of protesters attempting to enter the compound are continuously repelled by police. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi pledged to prevent further attacks against foreign embassies in Cairo. Morsi made the remarks during a... -Full Story- (rt.com - 13/09/12)

THE ROVING EYE-Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi
By Pepe Escobar
"Daddy, what is blowback?" Here's a fable to tell our children, by the fire, in a not so-distant post-apocalyptic, dystopian future. Once upon a time, during George "Dubya" Bush's "war on terra", the Forces of Good in Afghanistan captured - and duly tortured - one evil terrorist, Abu Yahya al-Libi. Abu Yahya al-Libi was, of course, Libyan. He slaved three years in the bowels of Bagram prison near Kabul, but somehow managed to escape that supposedly impregnable fortress in July 2005. At the time, the Forces of Good were merrily in bed with Colonel Muammar... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 13/09/12)

Perfect storm over Libya
By Victor Kotsev
The outrage that broke in Libya on September 11, 2012, with the killing of the United States ambassador and three other diplomatic staffers at the consulate in Benghazi, appears to be an example of the perfect storm. Diverse but powerful agendas, local and international, converged unexpectedly to make it happen, and the tragic consequences were most likely amplified by sheer luck. Since the entire Middle East is red hot with tension, its repercussions may also be disproportionate and unpredictable. A Washington Post report indicates that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not meant to be in the consulate... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 13/09/12)

The Missing Dimension in Educational Reform
R Chandrasoma
It was believed – until quite recently – that the human brain completed its ‘neurogenesis’ at the close of adolescence and that in adulthood there was a steady and sizeable reduction in the number of cerebral nerve-cells available for cognitive work. Thus IQ was supposed to peak at around the close of the second decade of life while the later years witnessed an increase in memory stores and in procedural skills but no increase in general intelligence – as measured in standard IQ tests. It appeared reasonable, then to focus all educational resources on improving the cognitive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

Revisiting PWC - Part V
Dr. Tilak Fernando
Although there were several ‘hard nuts’ with ‘light fingers’ at our college, there was always an unwritten law that no one should steal from classmates. Whenever there was any such misdeed our drawing master became a self appointed ‘criminal investigator’ with his remarkable psychological tactics. Apart from his yarns, he was very popular for his self-styled investigations and earned another nickname as the ‘PWC CID’. As opposed to his hunting revelations, he managed to condition the minds of students to make them believe that he practised voodoo (mantra) too! - Needless to say the boys... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

New Era of Japanese-Pak Relations
By Afshain Afzal
Japan and Pakistan enjoy good relations since last 60 years. Japanese Maritime Self Defence Forces (JMSDF) and Pakistan Navy too had good relations. The recent five days official visit of JS Kashima, Training Ship of JMSDF to Karachi has paved new avenues of friendship. It was basically due to Rear Admiral Hidetoshi Fuchinoue, Squadron Commander, who was also onboard. The Japanese delegation held meetings with Naval authorities at Karachi, in which matters pertaining to operations and training were discussed. Regional Maritime Security situation, especially in the neighbourhood also came under discussion. Japanese Naval delegation also visited Pakistan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

Accommodating competing interests
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island
"The question of Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom is currently the single most pressing issue in British politics and a point of growing concern across Europe. The Scots opted for their own regional government in 1997, and a referendum planned for the fall of 2014 will offer them the chance to create their own country, a goal to which the Scottish National Party (SNP), the majority faction in Scotland’s parliament, is expressly committed" (Charles King, Foreign Affairs, p. 114, September/October 2012). The issue is what options are open to democratic polities to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

Kudankulam: Sri Lankans should learn to run and swim
W. David Soysa- Courtesy The Island
Koodankulam Nuclear Plant – The potential mind boggling Fukushima, Chernobyl type disaster, from India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant, has begun to count down. Currently nuclear fuel (supplied by US & France) is being fed in to the plant, built by the Russians, at the southern tip of India, just 220 KM from Kalpitiya. But don’t panic. Sri Lanka’s Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) will be setting up Nuclear Early warning system in Navy camps in, Kalpitiya, Delft Islands and KKS. Later such detectors will be installed in Colombo. Galle, Trincomalee and Kandy – covering... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

Sri Lanka Participates in HRC Interactive Dialogues on 'Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-recurrence' and 'Children and Armed Conflict'
PRESS RELEASE- THE PERMANENT MISSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST  REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE IN GENEVA
The Sri Lanka Delegation to the 21st Session of the Human Rights Council which opened in Geneva earlier this week is continuing to engage with the relevant Interactive Dialogues with Special Procedures Mandate Holders and Working Groups. Intervening in the Interactive Dialogue on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-recurrence, on Wednesday (12 September) Senior Advisor to the Cabinet Mr. Mohan Peiris observed that Sri Lanka has developed its  home-grown transitional justice  process with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

තම දරුවන්ට විශ්ව විද්යා ල දේශන මාලාවන් සොයා අන්තර්ජාලය පුරා සැරිසරන දෙමව්පියෝ!
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
මෙරට විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරුන්ගේ වැඩ වර්ජනයට මේ වනවිට මාස දෙකක කාලයක් ගතව ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධව තවත් ආකාරයකින් කථා කරනවා නම් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවල ඉගෙනුම ලබන සෑම දරුවෙකුගේම ඉගෙනීමට නියමිත කාලයෙන් මාස දෙක බැගින් මේ ආචාර්ය වැඩ වර්ජනය විසින් විනාශ කර ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ,  විශ්ව විද්‍යාල සියල්ලේම 1,00,000 කට ආසන්න ශිෂ්‍ය සංඛ්‍යාවක් ඉගෙනුම ලබමින් සිටින අතර මේ සෑම සිසුවෙකුගේම මාස දෙකක අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු සදහා උරුම  කාලය කොතෙක්දැයි නිසි ලෙස ගනනය කරනු ලැබුවොත්, සිසු මාස 2,00,000 යක් මේ වනවිට මේ ආචාර්ය වැඩවර්ජනය විසින් විනාශකර ඇත. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් සිසුවෙක් අවුරුදු 5ක කාලයක් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සිටිනවායයි අනුමාන කර ගනනය කලයොත් සිසුවෙකු විශ්ව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

"බලශක්ති සංරක්ෂණයට කැපවන මතු පරපුරක් වෙනුවෙන් ජන විදුලි බලාගාර වැඩසටහන ක්රිතයාත්මක කෙරේ"
  The Media Team Ministry of Power & Energy
ජාතික පාසල් සහ ද්වීතියික පාසල් 1500 ක් පළමු අදියර සඳහා තෝරාගැනේ. වැඩසටහන වෙනුවෙන් ස්වයංක්‍රීය සේවා දුරකතන අංක දෙකක්. 07 1910 1910 හා 07 1901 1901  බලශක්ති සංරක්ෂණය මානව වර්ගයාගේ පැවැත්ම සඳහා අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය සාාධකයක් වී ඇත. අපේ දරුවන් විදුලි සංරක්ෂණයට යොමු නොකළහොත්, අනාගතය අඳුරෙන් ගලවාගැනීම එතරම් පහසු කාර්යයක් නොවේ. මේ තුළින් අනාගතයේදී උදාවන්නේ තෙල්, ගල් අඟ=රු නැති ලෝකය මුහුණදෙන බලශක්ති අර්බුදයයි.-විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක  2012 මාර්තු මස 20 වන දින ආරම්භ කළ හෙට වෙනුවෙන් අද ජාතික බලශක්ති සංරක්ෂණ වැඩපිළිවෙලේ පළමු අදියර අවසන් කෙරුනේ විදුලි පාරිභෝගිකයන් ලක්ෂ 19 ක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/12)

The Sentiments Of A UPFA Party Jumper Who Says"A Strong, Joint Opposition Can Oust This Govt" Seems To Be Delusionary!
LankaWeb Weekly Editorial
September 13th 2012 The former presidential advisor on Agriculture Development, Hemakumara Nanayakkara a recent party jumper from the UPFA has said that " having left the government, the best course of action one could take is to form a political party which could bring all opposition parties under one umbrella. Hence the birth of the Mawbima Janatha Movement (MJM) under his stewardship seems to be his vision for Sri Lanka which needs to be put into perspective. Famous words perhaps from him as  well as many of his ilk  who have been unable to have  personal agendas addressed by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/12)

Another Insult by Sri Lanka - G.P.Kumar
Ira de Silva London, Canada
Attention: Mr. G. Pramod Kumar - Firstpost.Com   Regarding your article in Firstpost, I agree that the cartoon in Lakbima is in poor taste, should not have been published, and that the author and the newspaper should tender an apology to Mr. Manmohan Singh. However, as for the rest of the content,  you seem to believe that the cartoon is the responsibility of the Sri Lankan Government, which it is not, so why should  anyone from the Government of Sri Lanka apologise to either Mr. M. Singh or Ms. Jayalilithaa? To do... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/12)

"තාවකාලික වාසි හමුවේ ගිජුලිහිණින්ට ලංවිම අයිතිකර ගන්න අපි ඉඩදුන්නේ නැහැ"
The Media Team Ministry of Power & Energy
ලංවිම සහ චීන ඉංජිනේරුවන් කණ්ඩායමක් වශයෙන් එකතුවී ස්ථාවර බලාගාරයක් ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට කටයුතු කරයි.ලෝකයේ පවතින බලශක්ති අර්බුදය හමුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ස්ථාවරයි. එය ඉදිරියටත් පවත්වාගන්න පියවර. ලංවිම පාලනය කරන්න බැරි අසාර්ථක ඇමතිවරයෙක් වශයෙන් හංවඩු ගැසුවත්, දේශපාලනික මඩ ගැසුවත්, වැඩි මුදලට විදුලිය මිලදී ගැනීමේ තීරණයෙන් වැළකී, රටට, මහජනතාවට සුබදායි අනාගතයක් වෙනුවෙන් තීරණ ගන්නට අපට හැකියාව ලැබුණා වගේම, ඒ වෙනුවෙන් මහජනතාව අපිත් එක්ක එකතුවුන එක මුළු රටටම ආදර්ශයක් බව අමාත්‍ය චම්පික රණවක මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි.  1990 සිට 2004 දක්වා කාලය තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදුලිබල ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ දියුණුවට කිසිඳු තීරණයක් ගැනීමට එවකට පැවති රජයන් කටයුතු කර නැහැ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/12)

Destroying The World In War The 11th Anniversary of 9/11
By Paul Craig Roberts
September 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - - The article below was written for the Journal of 9/11 Studies for the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, the day that terminated accountable government and American liberty. It is posted here with the agreement of the editors. In order to understand the improbability of the government’s explanation of 9/11, it is not necessary to know anything about what force or forces brought down the three World Trade Center buildings, what hit the Pentagon or caused the explosion, the flying skills or lack thereof of the... -Full Story- (informationclearinghouse.info - 12/09/12)

US officials investigating whether Libya attacked was timed to 9/11 anniversary - reports
RT
Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance. ­Both the New York Times and CNN are quoting sources within the administration as saying the attack on the consulate was planned. CNN's source claimed "Tuesday's attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was planned in advance, and the attackers used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion". Intelligence officials also reportedly said the attack on the Benghazi consulate was too coordinated or professional to be spontaneous.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 12/09/12)

Libya attack may have been planned and organized, US officials say
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, may have been planned and organized in advance, U.S. government officials said on Wednesday. The officials said that there were indications that members of a militant faction calling itself Ansar al Sharia - which translates as Supporters of Islamic Law - may have been involved in organizing the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya's second-largest city.... -Full Story- (trust.org - 12/09/12)

Al-Qaeda linked terror group now thought to be behind killing of US ambassador to Libya
The Times of Israel
Al-Qaeda linked terror group now thought to be behind killing of US ambassador to Libya Gunmen, reportedly marking 9/11 anniversary, used protest over anti-Islam film to foment chaos, take revenge for slain terror operative, officials believe; career diplomat Stevens had previously served in Jerusalem... -Full Story- (timesofisrael.com - 12/09/12)

Embassy Attacks Underscore An Alarming Post-Arab Spring Shift Towards Anti-American and Anti-Israel Sentiment
FORBES
Yesterday’s entirely unjustified and outrageous attacks on 11th anniversary of 9/11 no less underscore an alarming shift in public opinion that is clear, quantifiable, and growing exponentially within the Arab Street since the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings last year.... -Full Story- (forbes.com - 12/09/12)

Sri Lanka: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh & Tamil Nadu's J. Jayaram
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
10 September 2012 Hon. Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, INDIA -110011 SENT BY FAX Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh: A few minutes ago I was woken up by a troublesome dream and I was shivering with anger.  The dream was – I was enjoying a cup of tea on a sunny morning sitting on a rattan chair in the verandah at my tropical home and picked up a leading morning Indian national newspaper. The 48 point bold... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

A Major Contribution in Employment Creation by the Commonwealth Secretariat
By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
On the occasion of the 58 th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary  Association in Sri Lanka in September 2012, it is timely to note a major achievement by the Commonwealth Fund in creating employment for the youth.  This did happen in Bangladesh in 1982 where I served as the Commonwealth Fund Advisor on Youth Development to the Ministry of Labour and Manpower, Government of Bangladesh. In 1978 the Ministry of Youth Development in Bangladesh had commenced technical and vocational training for youths. By 1980 around 30,000 youths were trained annually.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

Is Hakeem the Kingmaker in the East?
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Ex Ministry Secretary and President. Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 11.9.2012
Hakeem has said the SLMC is the kingmaker in the East. Yes Sri Lanka Muslim Congress as it is, may be the King maker but Hakeem must also understand that he is not the King. He also has said he had received offers from MR and TNA. So as it is he has two options that is either to join hands with the TNA and bag the Eastern PC by getting the CM’s post and as he aspired when he decided to contest all alone and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

SLMC’s Dilemma and Hakkeem’s habitual betrayal.
By Charles.S.Perera
There is nothing new in Rauff Hakeem's  stick in the mud attitude.   He has already proved he is an unreliable partner in a coalition government. As it happened during  Chandrika Kumaratunga, PA Government Coalition “ Sri Lanka's main Muslim party split following its pull out that turned the ruling coalition into a minority government, party officials said Friday.The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) announced disciplinary action against two of its legislators who defied the leadership and remained with President Chandrika Kumaratunga's People's Alliance (PA) coalition.” This is what Rauff Hakim was and continues to be. He has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

Fraying brotherhood over troubled waters
Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The  Hindu
If Tamil Nadu politicians truly care about Sri Lankan Tamils, they should discourage the State’s fishermen from cornering the marine resources in the Palk Straits When Tamil Nadu politicians raise the pitch against the Sri Lankan government’s perceived atrocities on the Tamils in that country, they invoke popular sentiment in Tamil Nadu, saying Tamils here are hurt and angry at the way their brethren across the Palk Straits are being treated. But that sympathy is nowhere evident on an issue that truly hits the Sri Lankan Tamils where it matters — their livelihoods. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

Serving the Sri Lankan community- A Consular Mobile Service organized by Sri Lanka High Commission in the UK
High Commission of Sri Lanka London
The High Commission of Sri Lanka in London held a full day mobile service at Judgemeadow Community College in Leicester on 2nd September 2012 to provide consular services to the Sri Lankan community living in the Leicester area. The services included registration of births, renewal of passports, acceptance of applications for new passports and other consular services. This was organized under the guidance of Mr. Chaminda Kularatne (Attorney-at-Law) Head of the Consular and Immigration Division of the High Commission of Sri Lanka in London in collaboration with the "Sri Lanka Muslim Diaspora Initiative... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

"විදුලි පාරිභෝගිකයන් ලක්ෂ 19 ක් විදුලිය ඉතුරු කරයි"
The Media Team Ministry of Power & Energy
ලංවිමට ගිගාවොට් පැය 84 ක් සහ රු. කෝටි 433 ක මූල්‍යය ඉතුරුවක්........ විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශයේ මෙහෙයවීම මත කි්‍රයාත්මක වූ හෙට වෙනුවෙන් අද විදුලිය සංරක්ෂණය කිරීමේ ජාතික සත්කාරයට සමගාමීව දිවයිනේ ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩල සේවා ලාභී විදුලි පාරිභෝගිකයින් ලක්ෂ 42 න් ලක්ෂ 19 ක්ම විදුලිය සංරක්ෂණයට යොමු වී ඇතැයි ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලය පෙන්වා දෙයි.  ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනම් ආයතනයේ අද:11- පැවැති ,හෙට වෙනුවෙන් අද, විදුලි සංරක්ෂණ තරඟයේ ජයග්‍රාහකයින් වෙත ත්‍යාග ලබා දීමේ උත්සවයට සහභාගී වෙමින් අමාත්‍යය චම්පික රණවක මහතා අවධාරණය කර සිටියේ මහජනතාවගේ කැපවීම මත පසුගිය මාස 3 ක කාලය තුල ගිගාවොට් පැය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

“It is only Allah who can grant the Muslim World wisdom – and we should all pray for this.” – Ahmadiyya Supreme Head.
By A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka.
The three-day international Ahmadiyya Conference concluded on September 9, 2012, at Hadeeqatul Mahdi in Alton, Hampshire, U.K.   This international event attracted great interest with at least 30,000 delegates from dozens of countries. During the course of the first day, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya community, addressed the delegates twice. Firstly, during his Friday Sermon and then later during the first full session of the Convention (Jalsa Salana). Further, as a means to officially inaugurate the event, he also raised the Flag of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/12)

Guantanamo death: 'We may never know how the person died'
RT
It’s not uncommon for inmates to be tortured and die in suspicious circumstances in Guantanamo, journalist Ryan Dawson told RT. He adds that the coming handover of the Bagram prison to the Afghans is just a “handover on paper” and that the US will retain control of the fate of the prisoners. A prisoner who had been in solitary confinement in Guantanamo was declared dead by guards on Tuesday, while an investigation into the cause of death has been launched. Ryan Dawson, a co-author of Why Peace and a contributor to whatreallyhappened.com, explained to RT that the truth about... -Full Story- (rt.com - 11/09/12)

The Power Principle-Video Documentary
informationclearinghouse.info
"Simply brilliant. It's a shame more people won't watch it due to the length. Because this is probably the best film ever made about American foreign policy." - Spartacus - ICH Comment A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today. This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It demonstrates the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. It documents and explains how the policy is based on the interest... -Full Story- (informationclearinghouse.info - 11/09/12)

Reading Results the Night After
By Gomin Dayasri
 Public perception treats Provincial Elections with a passing tweet: Not so, it’s a worthy weathervane for a Presidential election. Numbers in the majority column speaks loud. Increased majorities for the government are nearly insurmountable bringing southern constituencies under a single party giant umbrella. UPFA strength lies in its ability to cut across the ethnic barrier and in being the premier national party.  Three and half years after touching peak popularity on dismantling terrorism in May 2009, a government with accusations of crass and sleaze, graft and garbage, deception and lies, assault and plunder record a majority... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/12)

Wrong Choice by Eastern Tamils to Cost Them the Chief Minister Post
Dilrook Kannangara
It was a needless election that was held more than a year in advance. Although the ruling UPFA won the North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces, the winner is less apparent in the Eastern Province. UPFA leads ITAK by just 1% or 6,217 votes. Without the two bonus seats, UPFA and ITAK would be only one seat apart. Eastern Province is more fragmented along ethnic lines than ever. Compared to 2008, UPFA has suffered a huge setback despite ending the war, development and reconciliation. In 2008 UPFA had the absolute majority with 20 seats. The Reconciliation Process... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/12)

Election results a disappointment to regime change activists
P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne
During the last few weeks, because of the Provincial Council elections, regime change activists had been working round the clock doing propaganda. Some held meetings to promote 'prospective leaders' and others wrote articles about regime change, which they said is around the corner.   Then there is the Tamil diaspora pumping money into Human Right groups, NGO's, politicians of the western block, Tamil Nadu politicians and so on, drumming support for regime change and agenda for a separate state. With the triumph of the UPFA in the 3 Provincial Councils their hopes became a dream.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/12)

POLITICS SHOULD NOT BE CONFRONTATIONAL, BUT PARTICIPATORY. MUSLIMS IN THE EAST HAVE THEIR ISSUES TO SETTLE.
By Noor Nizam - Canada, September 9th., 2012.
The victory of the UPFA in the recent Eastern Provincial Council elections has to be given serious thought by the Muslim community. Though the UPFA has got 204000 votes and captured 14 seats, this does not mean that the UPFA is the governing body of the Eastern Provincial Council. If the UPFA had got at least 21 seats, then the situation will be different as the UPFA could have been sworn in to governance with their CM candidate. By doing so, they could have formed the EP Council political administration without... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/12)

Iceland’s Population is Condemning the Consumption of Whale Meat by Tourist
Press release-ProWal Nonprofit marine mammal environmental protection society
Radolfzell/Reykjavik - September 10th 2012. - Bloodthirsty and insisting on their traditions - this is how the public envisioned the Icelandic people for many decades, when hearing news about the whale hunts in the Atlantic Ocean of this island-state. A lot has changed since then and the reality looks quite different today. The German dolphin- and whale-protection organization Prowal visited Iceland for the second time this year and had astounding insights. Andreas Morlokof ProWal had this to report:”We had conversations with quite a few locals as well as business people. Almost all... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/12)

20 Syrian soldiers executed in Aleppo (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
RT
Two amateur videos were posted on YouTube on Monday showing what appear to be images of 20 dead Syrian soldiers, blindfolded and handcuffed. They were reportedly executed by rebel fighters in the northern city of Aleppo. The video showed the men dressed in army clothes, sprawled along a road with their bloodied heads lying on a pavement. Men believed to be rebel fighters are then shown holding assault rifles calling the men “Assad’s dogs”. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the video. A man off camera, filming a car with the name of the brigade written... -Full Story- (rt.com - 10/09/12)

Assange lawyer: A man who committed no crime is persecuted (EXCLUSIVE)
RT
Baltasar Garzon is no stranger to conflict when it comes to fighting injustice carried out by state powers. In an exclusive interview with RT, the Spanish jurist explained why WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange is “worth defending.” ­The seemingly intractable battle between Ecuador and Britain over Julian Assange has brought a spotlight on the dangerous path whistleblowers tread in exposing abuses of state power. With Assange holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June, the small Latin American country’s decision to grant the WikiLeaks founder political asylum sits in heavy contrast to the fact that he... -Full Story- (rt.com - 10/09/12)

A letter to Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike 72 years ago
Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September  9, 2012 His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa President of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariate, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka. Your Excellency: Notwithstanding that you have stated that “hostile activities by one state in India did not represent the whole Indian stance and Sri Lanka is conducting diplomatic relations with India closely,” I take it that regional geo-politics leaves you no choice but to conduct diplomatic relations with India to provide some normalcy, as you know as well as I know, India is no friend of Sri Lanka. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

Foreign Policy Regarding Sri Lanka
Ira de Silva London, Canada
Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India South Block, Raisina Hill New Delhi, India-110 011 Dear Sir: I am writing to you regarding your government's inaction, impotence and silence regarding the racist, venomous and inhuman behaviour of  Ms. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, as illustrated by her attitude and treatment of pilgrims, schoolboys and other Sri Lankan visitors to Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is a state of India and the world believes that it is the Central Government that still decides on India's foreign policy. Have you changed that policy and transferred foreign policy to the states?... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

Global warming and climate change
Dr Hector Perera          London
This is a problem that will never go away easily. The use of fossil fuels to meet the world's energy needs is a contributor to an increase in greenhouse gases (GHGs) mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. There is a widespread view that this increase is leading to climate change, with adverse effects on the environment. Each individual can help cut down or reduce this climate change if they use fossil fuel sensibly or efficiently. In one of the reports it is mentioned that a reduction of just 5 percent in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

'Russia won’t fund EU political influence in Eastern Europe' - Putin
RT
The ongoing economic crisis in the eurozone has political roots, as the EU took on too many obligations with new members. Now Brussels wants Russia to share the burden, said President Vladimir Putin at the final APEC press conference in Vladivostok. ­Putin explained that modern Russia will not take on any additional obligations towards the economies of Eastern Europe. He noted that “the very political system, the high level of social guarantees, the inability to ensure growing consumption – all this is a crippling burden that lies on the shoulders of the European economy.” “The matter is that all... -Full Story- (rt.com - 09/09/12)

'Foreign Islamists seek to turn Syria into Sharia state'
RT
Around half of the rebel fighters in Syria are foreign Islamists who aren’t interested in toppling the Assad regime. Instead, they’re seeking to implement Sharia law throughout the country, according to a prominent French doctor. ­The co-founder of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, Jacques Beres, discovered some interesting information while treating Syrian rebels in the besieged city of Aleppo. According to Beres, 60 per cent of his patients during his two week service in Syria were rebels– and about half of those were foreign. He says the fighters aren’t focused on the fall of the Assad regime. Instead,... -Full Story- (rt.com - 09/09/12)

A good speech on the foreign policy of Romney vs Obama by John Kerry
Thursday, September 6, 2012 Senator John Kerry spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention about America's exceptional acts. Senator Kerry also spoke about the promises kept by President Obama, such as ending the war in Iraq and capturing Osama Bin Laden. He also criticized Mitt Romney's varying stances on the war in Iraq and the American intervention in Libya, and question the Republican candidate's qualifications in foreign policy... -Full Story- (c-span.org - 09/09/12)

Sri Lanka's governing party bagged a landslide victory again defeating the country's main ethnic Tamil party and the main opposition in provincial assembly elections.
Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) today defeated the country's main ethnic Tamil party in the elections held for three of the island's nine provinces. The elections are seen as a test of whether Tamils still want self-rule in a region devastated by decades of civil war. The election authorities say President Mahinda Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance has won 14 seats in the eastern provincial council while the Tamil National Alliance secured 11. The UPFA coalition has won 21 seats in the 33-member council in the north central province clearing for landslide victory for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

"Insane fury" of Jaffna culture showed no mercy
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Jaffna comes out of the pages of history as a mono-ethnic enclave that produced three of the most unacceptable political perversions: 1. leaders who were torturers and mass murderers, particularly of their own Tamil people; 2. Tamil terrorists banned by the international community and 3. pariahs as categorized by the Hindu casteist hierarchy and defined as such in the OED. No other political culture in Sri Lanka has produced these obscenities. Obviously, a political culture that produces (1) Tamil terrorists, (2) unrestrained mass murderers as Tamil leaders and (3) pariahs, the helpless Tamils oppressed by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

India rebuffs President Obama on liberalizing restrictions on Foreign Investment: That is the way for national development.
By Garvin  Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
“The Indian Government told Obama to mind his own business after the American President urged India to do more to lift curbs on foreign investment”.(The Economist: July 27,2012))  A few months ago Secretary of State Hilary Clinton when she visited India urged the Indian Government to allow multinationals into the retail trade in India. Manmohan Singh was not gullible.  India is sticking to its guns to defend employment for its own people and to enable Indians to enjoy the profits of retail trade.  The US wants to snatch retail trade in India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

Landslide victory again for the government in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council elections
All Provincial Council seats in North Central and Sabaragamuwa districts won by ruling party United People's Freedom Alliance. Anuradhapura District
Medawachchiya Polling Division United People's Freedom Alliance 27,288 66.68 % United National Party 11,856 28.97 % People's Liberation Front 1,661 4.06 % Horowupotana Polling Division United People's Freedom Alliance 27,911 64.16 % United National Party 14,167 32.57 % People's Liberation Front 1,294 2.97 % Anuradhapura-EastPolling Division United People's Freedom Alliance 31,099 58.92 % United National Party 18,726 35.48 % People's Liberation Front 2,759 5.23 % Anuradhapura-WestPolling Division United People's Freedom Alliance 31,520 59.44 % United National Party 19,624 37.01... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

NCP kidney disease. Thinking outside the box.
by Professor Chandre Dharmawardana.(The author was a Professor of Chemistry at the Vidyodaya University in the 1970s, currently affilated to NRC Canada and the University of Montreal).
Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origins, known as CKDU has presented itself as a baffling health problem with serious socio-economic implications. CKDU is most prevalent in the North-central (Uthuru-maeda) and Uva provinces. It has been investigated for at least a decade, and various theories have been presented. The use of pesticides and fertilizers, consumption of contaminated drinking water, and even the use of Aluminum cooking pots have been included in the gallery... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

What is the stance of TNA on attacks on Sri Lankan Tamils visiting Tamil Nadu?
Asada M Erpini
A group of schoolchildren who were in Tamil Nadu to play a friendly soccer match were unceremoniously packed off on the orders of the all powerful Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The reason ostensibly was to show the lady’s support for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Close on the heels of the departure of the soccer players, 186 Catholics who were on a pilgrimage to Tamil Nadu had to head back to Sri Lanka, after facing the wrath of groups of unruly Tamil hooligans. The pilgrims were to attend religious activities at Poondi Matha and Velankanni... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

FOSTERING NATIONAL UNITY AND ‘SINHALA BUDDHIST’ FACTOR
By Sugath Samarasinghe
This is a response to the essay of Dr. A.C. Visvalingam in the Sunday Island of 26th August titled “Improving the Atmosphere to Foster National Unity”. I am sending this response because I thought it is an effort by Dr. Visvalingam to focus on some of the road blocks to national reconciliation and since it is useful to address such issues direct, in an effort  to clear such road blocks. It is necessary to discuss such issues boldly if we are to clear the atmosphere. If a genuine integration among the communities is to be achieved... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

SRI LANKA HAS TO ACT PATIENTLY, BUT STERN IN DIPLOMACY.
By Noor Nizam - Canada, 8th. September 2012.
 The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India HE. Prasad Kariyawasam has blamed  "fringe pro-LTTE groups" in the state of Tamil Nadu for the violence against visiting Sri Lankans, but underlined it will not affect robust ties or the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India later this month. "It's an unfortunate aberration, especially given very warm and robust relations between India and Sri Lanka," The High Commissioner has told this to journalist Manish Chand of the IANS during an interview at his office when asked on the recent targeting of Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

A ‘Muslim’ Thing?-‘The media are the eyes and ears of the people’
Hameed Abdul Karim
When was the last time you read a piece in your favourite newspaper informing you of what’s going in Kashmir? Or about the malicious nature of Zionism which is the ideology of the Israeli occupiers of Palestine?  Never mind. We’ll come back to that in a while.  For now let’s celebrate the new found freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and rejoice with her as she basks in glory whilst world leaders fall over each other to shake her hand. She deserves every bit of accolade for her long and unfaltering and unwavering stand for freedom... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

Sri Lanka's First-ever Paralympic medal winner felicitated in London
Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission London
Bronze medal-winner Lance Corporal UDP Pradeep Sanjaya of the 4th Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment was felicitated by the Sri Lanka High Commission, London, when the Paralympic team and the officials and coaches visited the Mission on Friday. The Men’s 400m T46 runner Pradeep Sanjaya was presented with an engraved trophy by High Commissioner Dr Chris Nonis to mark what was a historic achievement by the soldier who had been seriously injured at Kilinochchi during the terrorist conflict in Sri Lanka. His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa personally spoke to the medal winner by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

වන්දනාකරුවන්ට ගල් ගැසිම
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
තමිල්නාඩුවේ සංචාරයකට ගිය ශ්‍රි ලාංකිකයින් පිරිසකට තමිල් නාඩුවේ සිටින කොටි හිතවාදීන් පිරිසක් පහරදී, එරටින් පන්නා දමන ලදී. ඒ තමිල් නාඩුවේ වර්තමානයේ පවතින දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියට අනුව සිදුකරන ලද්දකි. අපි කිසිම රටකට උරුමව ඇති සංස්කෘතීන්ට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කරන්නන් නොවන බැවින්, ඒ රටේ සංස්කාතියට අනුව සිදුකරන ලද ඒ ක්‍රියාදාමය හෙලා දකින්නට ඉදිරිපත් නොවෙමු. ඒ එවුනගේ සංස්කෘතිය බැවිණි. තවද අප එම සංස්කෘතියට ගරු නොකලද හඩක් නොනගන්නේ කොටියාගේ ප්‍රියතම ආහාරය කොටියා ලගට ලංව ආදර පෑමට යෑම මෙවැනි අනතුරු වලට ඉඩ පාදන බව අප දන්නා බැවිණි.  මහා වනයකට යන මිනිසෙක්, වන සතුන්ගෙන් මහා පිලිගැනීමක් අපේක්ෂාවෙන් එහි නොයා යුතුය.  වනයේ පවතින්නේ මහා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/12)

Is Sri Lanka Preparing for UNHRC’s Head Navi Pillay
 Shenali Waduge
To most of us the announcement of UNHRC’s Technical Team visit comes as a surprise but nothing that should cause frenzy other than the fact that most UN visits are generally not without bias and not without agenda. There is every possibility that the conclusive report is already drafted. Therefore, Sri Lanka’s Government is in for a rude shock if it is under the illusion that Pillay and her team arrive on 14th September to make amends, share a good cup of Ceylon tea and to congratulate Sri Lanka on eliminating terrorism! Every nook and corner that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

AI Statement on Sri Lanka to be discussed at the UN in Geneva
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
6 September 2012  Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, Ottawa cc. John Argue, Sri Lanka Coordinator, Amnesty International, Toronto      Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka at the UN in Geneva Dear Alex: I have just read the statement issued by your outfit, Amnesty International (AI) which will be discussed at the UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva later this month. You know what Alex, I thought you guys had the gall and temerity to claim your moral right to make... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu overrules the writ of the Indian Central Government
Asada M Erpini
A group of Sri Lankan schoolchildren who were to play a friendly soccer match in Tamil Nadu were asked to leave the country on the directives of the never-off-the-spotlight Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha Jayaram. The members of the soccer team were in India - and Tamil Nadu is one of the states comprising the giant Union of States – after obtaining legally valid visas issued by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Central Government of India. A visa permits the holder to visit the places of interest in any part of the country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Animal Sacrifice "Barabric offensive ritual in the name of the Religion must stop" – Hemantha Warnakulasuriya; Munneswaram Kovil case
By Mike Andree Courtesy The Island
The Chilaw police filed a new report, before District Judge Jagath Kahandagamage, alleging that there was a likelihood, in the near future, that a ‘bili puja’ (animal sacrifice) would be performed at the Sri Badhrakali Amman Kovil where hundreds of animals, especially goats would be slaughtered. The news that the puja, involving animal sacrifice, would take place would lead to many Buddhist and other organisations protesting. The police report further stated that the animal sacrifice was in direct contravention of the Fauna and Flora Act where slaughter of animals is an offence. Police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Human rights is invented by American Rand corporation
Human rights is invented by American Rand corporation right wing extremist think tank  group or George Soros funded International Crisis Group   Right to Protect a way of interfere in third world countries to plunder their natural resources or for  other global geo political interests. regime changes  by coups  violent  over throwing of  democratically elected  government/ supporting military dictatorship  went out of fashion America became  humiliated  as happened in Chile, Iran, Egypt, Salvador Philippines, Indonesia, Congo, Guatemala most South American countries in 50`s 60.s 70.s as worst atrocities committed by American supported dictatorships. Worst violators of human rights  everybody know the answer  Guantamo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

DON’T WE CALL THEM TRAITORS?
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
 A few media groups, some journalists and so many NGOs belonging to the Indian lobby in Pakistan are now-a-days earnestly working for the approval of free-trade facilities between Pakistan and India. If unluckily approved, such trade policy would prove a catastrophic disaster for Pakistan.  The ever-worst energy crisis in Pakistan has badly affected the industrial sector. The industrial units which have the capacity of working round the clock are compelled to work only for six to eight hours a day. This situation is not only making lives of the labourers a hell but also increasing the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

ORGANIC PREVENTIVES AND CURES FOR CANCER.
Susantha Wijesinghe
There are many organic items in Sri Lanka to PREVENT and CURE CANCER.  1)    LEMON GRASS......SERA     Botanical name:- Cymbopogon Citratus        Israelis were the first to find that LEMON GRASS is a Preventive and Cure for Cancer. Please Google " Lemon Grass for Cancer" and you will find what Israel Doctors found out. They say that the Citral in Lemon Grass makes Cancer Cells commit suicide. I put Lemon Grass leaves in a small bundle into the Rice Pot. I also use Lemon Grass very generously in my cooking. I sometimes drink Lemon Grass Tea. So, it would be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Islam's War Against Buddhism
Dhammajarat
  Courtyard at the Maha Bodhi Tree “Allahu Akbar!” The tinny P.A. system tore asunder the pre-dawn peace and quiet. I was jolted in my mind, almost like experiencing a car wreck, suddenly and without any warning. This totally incongruous sound intruded upon and encompassed everything, causing even the birds to rustle in the darkness. It was just after 4 a.m. I was seated underneath the holy Maha Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, in the state of Bihar in India. It was a few days past the full... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

"තාවකාලික විදුලි කප්පාදුව නතර කෙරේ"
මාධ්‍ය අංශය විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය 
දිවයිනේ ප්‍රධාන නගර 78 ක, පැය 3 විනාඩි 20 ක් බැගින් බලපැවැත්වූ තාවකාලික විදුලි කප්පාදුව අද සිට නැවත දැනුම්දෙන තුරු නතරකිරීමට විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය තීරණය කර ඇත.  ලංවිම පද්ධති පාලන අංශය, ජනන හා සම්ප්‍රේෂණ අංශ මෙන්ම ලංවිම පරිපාලන නිලධාරීන් සමග පැවති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකින් අනතුරුව මෙම තීරණයට එළඹ තිබේ. අද වනවිට ජල විදුලි උත්පාදනය 24% ක මට්ටමක පවතින අතර වාර්ෂික ජල විදුලි උත්පාදනයේ සාමාන්‍ය  45% කි. එසේම පුත්තලම ලක්විජය බලාගාරයේ අළුත්වැඩියා කටයුතු සහ පරීක්ෂණ කටයුතුද මේ වනවිට අවසන් අදියරේ පවතී. මේ සියළු තත්ත්වයන් මධ්‍යයේ වුවද, ජනන හා සම්ප්‍රේෂණ  අංශයන් උපරිම කාර්යක්ෂම මට්ටමකින් මෙහෙයවමින්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

William Hague is wrong... we must own up to our brutal colonial past
Owen Jones-Courtesy independent.co.uk
We associate the term 'concentration camps' with the Nazis. But it started with the British
Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No, me neither. But this is the fictional Britain that has been conjured up by our Foreign Secretary, William Hague. "We have to get out of this post-colonial guilt," he declared in Friday's Evening Standard. "Be confident in ourselves." Here is an echo of Gordon Brown's assertion in 2005 that "the days of Britain having to apologise for its colonial history are over".... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Re-visiting Prince of Wales - IV
Dr.Tilak Fernando
Prince of Wales College science laboratory is associated with many memories despite the traumatic incident where one of our adored teachers committed suicide by swallowing a concoction of concentrated acid as mentioned in my last episode. The laboratory had a separate partitioned office room where the Lab Master always occupied during off-periods. He was of Indian origin, short and chubby with a strong North Indian brogue, highly temperamental and a romantic type too! When he entered the classroom for physics, students used to shiver with fear. Our chemistry teacher was also an Indian young female in her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/12)

Over 600 parliamentarians and officials from 54 Commonwealth nations for the CPA Conference in Sri Lanka
MEDIA RELEASE- High Commission of Sri Lanka London
With parliamentarians from the entire Commonwealth due to gather in Colombo for a week-long meeting  which will formerly open on 11th September, Secretary-General of the CPA Dr Shija had discussions with High Commissioner Chris Nonis on the upcoming conference. The CPA, headquartered in London, brings together more than 170 parliaments and legislatures throughout the Commonwealth, and is a powerful organisation dedicated to strengthening good parliamentary practice and respect for the institution of Parliament. Sri Lanka's Speaker of parliament Chamal Rajapaksa MP will be chairing the forthcoming CPA Conference. The cross-party UK... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/12)

සීනි සම්බෝලය
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග
කාර්මික නිළධාරියකු වූ වීරසේන උන්නතිකාමි යැයි කිවහොත් එය වරදක් නොවේ. නිතරම උසස්වීම් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා උත්සුක වූ ඔහු ප‍්‍රධානීන්ගේ හිත් දිනා ගැනීම සඳහා බොහෝ දෑ කළේය. වෘත්තීය ජීවිතයේ ඉහළ නැගීම තම එ්කායන ජීවන අපේක්ෂාව ලෙස සැලකූ වීරසේන හට තම අදහස්වලට සරිලන බිරියක් සිටීම එක් අතකට වාසනාවකි. ඔවුන් අතර සාමය කඩවී ගියේ කලාතුරකිනි. පාසල් ගුරුවරියකවූ වීරසේනගේ භාර්යාව වීරසේනටත් වඩා අපේක්ෂා සහිතව සිටි හෙයින් වෘත්තීය ඉණිමගේ ඉහළට ඔහුව තල්ලූ කළාය.   තම සැමියා සමග සේවය කළ තවත් කාර්මික නිළධාරියකු වූ එ්කනායක හා ඔහුගේ බිරිය වූ මාලතී නොරිස්සූ ඇය එ්කනායක පරදා ඉහළ නැගීමට වීරසේන මෙහෙය වූවාය. වීරසේනගේ බිරිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/12)

Evinta.IBE opens up multiple revenue channels for Airlines
Press release-John Keells Computer Services
Colombo, 06th September 2012 Evinta.IBE – a multi-channel booking platform –revolutionizes the way in which airline tickets are sold by applying new technology on old sales channels. Airlines have always provided richer functionality and better fares to Web customers. Why? Because they want to lure passengers away from traditional sales channels which are both expensive and rigid. Yet International Air Transportation Industry (IATA) statics show that over 50% of the world’s flights continue to be sold through travel agencies. These agents rely on global distribution systems (GDSs) to display and compare airline fares. These... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/12)

Contempt of Court Case against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen put off to February 2013
By K.T.Rajasingham Colombo, 06 September, Asiantribune.com
The contempt of court case filed against Minister Rishad Bathiudheen came up for the first time yesterday at the Court of Appeal in Colombo and the preliminary objections were raised by the Senior Presidential Counsel Faaiz Mustapah. He pointed out that there cannot be a rule against the respondent and no solid evidence has been placed by the petitioners in their petition, but the presiding judge who is also the President of the Court of Appeal overruled the objections and thereupon fixed the matter for 13th of February 2013. The case against Minister Rishad... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/12)

Help Fight Cancer-help Batticaloa Cancer Hospital
Amirthamshan
Dear Friends, I'm currently involved in a project to donate an equipment for the Batticaloa Cancer Hospital, which is the only cancer hospital in the entire Eastern Province in Sri Lanka. This equipment called the "Cryostat Machine" is used during surgery to test if the cancer cells have been successfully removed from the area in which surgery is performed. This machine has the potential of minimizing repeated surgeries in the same area of a patient's body. As this equipment is quite costly, we are in need for your generous donation to fulfill this void in the Cancer Hospital that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/12)

Putin: Non-stop civil war if Assad ousted
RT
Russian President Putin has warned that if the Assad government is overthrown, the ensuing civil war in Syria may see no end. Speaking after a meeting with Italian PM Monti, Putin said thatt in the case if the Syrian authorities are displaced, “they will simply swap places with the current opposition and this will cause a civil war that would go on for no one knows how long.” Putin also called on the conflicting parties to reach a compromise, saying this is the only path which ensures the country has a future. “The incumbent Syrian authorities as well as... -Full Story- (rt.com - 06/09/12)

Putin: Using Al-Qaeda in Syria like sending Gitmo inmates to fight (EXCLUSIVE)
RT
In an RT global exclusive premiere, President Putin gives his first post-inauguration interview, speaking in depth with RT’s Kevin Owen ahead of the APEC summit in Vladivostok. ­Touching upon a range of issues, he discusses topics from the Pussy Riot trial to the Julian Assange case, from the upcoming US elections to the situation in Syria. RT: What I want to talk about first of all is the ongoing at the moment APEC summit. You'll be going there very shortly – in Vladivostok because it's the first time that Russia has held it, a prestigious event. But it always... -Full Story- (rt.com - 06/09/12)

Jayalalithaa's Terrorism
Ira de Silva London, Canad
With reference to the increased level of attacks against Sri Lankans in Tamil Nadu, it could be said that having succeeded in defeating the threat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka the country is now facing Jayalalithaa's terrorism. Because Sri Lankns have a short memory regarding the many anti Sri Lanka acts by both Tamil Nadu and the Indian Government as well as statements by politicians that India is a friendly neighbour, it is appropriate to remind Sri Lankans that it was the  Indian Government of Mrs. Gandhi that used the Tamil Nadu Government to assist it in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/12)